Urban Setting in Contemporary American Crime Fiction

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Urban Setting in Contemporary American Crime Fiction
Original language description
The article analyzes the changing representations of urban setting in contemporary American crime fiction. Briefly characterizing the traditional image of the city in American hardboiled crime fiction, it then moves on to contrast it with the way urban setting functions in many recent crime novels. Referring to crime series by Sara Paretsky, Linda Barnes, Laura Lippman, S.J. Rozan and Les Roberts, it analyzes how a new image of the city is constructed in contemporary crime writing. The article also tries to show that although the contemporary heightened interest in the role of places and spaces in literary works has been mainly focused on classic works or the so-called high-brow texts, it can yield interesting results when aimed at popular genres, such as crime fiction.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-02634S" target="_blank" >GA19-02634S: Place and Community in Contemporary Anglophone Crime Fiction</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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