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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

B - Odborná kniha

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA19-02634S" target="_blank" >GA19-02634S: Lokalita a komunita v současné anglofonní detektivní próze</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

978-1-4766-8777-3

Počet stran knihy

193

Název nakladatele

McFarland

Místo vydání

Jefferson

Kód UT WoS knihy

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