Isbn: 9781611477344 - the importance of place in contemporary italian crime fiction: a bloody journey (the fairleigh dickinson university press series in italian studies) (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last twenty years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. Nowadays there is a general acknowledgment of the importance of place in Italian crime novels. However, apart from a limited scholarship on single cities, the genre has never been systematically studied in a way that so comprehensively spans Italian national boundaries. The originality of this volume also lies in the fact that the author have not limited her investigation to a series of cities, but rather she has considered the different forms of (social) landscape in which Italian crime novels are set. 222 pages.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 213 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.