The Place It Was Done: Location and Community in Contemporary American and British Crime Fiction

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Place It Was Done: Location and Community in Contemporary American and British Crime Fiction
Original language description
Focusing on three main locations – the city, the country, the wilderness – this book takes a new view how place and space is employed in contemporary British and American crime fiction. It discusses relatively recent and, with a few exceptions, not often critically examined works by authors such as Robert Galbraith, Ian Rankin, Denise Mina, Chris Brookmyre, John Knox, Peter Robinson, Elly Griffith, Peter May, Les Roberts, Dana Stabenow, Nevada Barr, Aimee and David Thurlo, Tony Hillerman, Anne Hillerman, Sara Paretsky, Linda Barnes, Linda Castillo, Philip R. Craig. Highlighting the similarities as well as differences among the various authors’ approaches to the locations and how these relate to the history of crime fiction and to the general literary representation of a particular place, the book reflects on the specifics of the British and American contexts. It goes beyond mere literary geography by also engaging the sociocultural dimensions of the communities affected by crime and characterizations of the investigators, thus analyzing the interconnectedness between the essentials of crime fiction (the crime scene, the murder victim, the sleuth) and the reader’s perception, recognition, and appreciation of a specific place and its community.
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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
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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