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Genre (2019) 52 (1): 77–83.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Jean Gregorek Copyright © 2019 by University of Oklahoma 2019 Stougaard-Nielsen Jakob , Scandinavian Crime Fiction , London : Bloomsbury , 2017 . ...
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Genre (2022) 55 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Figure 1. US foreignizing crime fiction—target countries ...
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Genre (2018) 51 (1): 27–52.
Published: 01 April 2018
... ), was in dialogue with both Jean-Pierre Melville’s crime films (notably Le samouraï [ The Samurai ]) and with a broader tradition of Anglophone crime film and fiction, the article argues for the importance of masculinity to understanding Manchette’s efforts to radicalize the roman noir (crime novel) and subvert...
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Genre (2020) 53 (2): 159–182.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Suk Koo Rhee This article argues that Suki Kim’s The Interpreter (2003) is influenced by and, at the same time, critically revises early American hard-boiled crime fiction, the genre with which it is least likely to be associated. Although dead bodies do not pile up in the novel, the urban world...
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Genre (2017) 50 (2): 153–179.
Published: 01 July 2017
... realism in crime fiction today. Jean Gregorek is an associate professor of English at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, where she specializes in British and postcolonial literature and cultural studies. Her publications include “Fables of Foreclosure: The Police Procedural in Recessionary...
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Genre (2014) 47 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2014
... of Crime Fiction . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan . Batuman Elif . 2005 . “Adventures of a Man of Science: Moretti in California.” n+1 3 , September . nplusonemag.com/adventures-man-science . Beecroft Alexander . 2008 . “World Literature without a Hyphen: Towards...
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Genre (2009) 42 (3-4): 79–98.
Published: 01 September 2009
... . Transl. Markmann Charles Lam . New York : Grove Press , 1967 . Print . Fischer-Hornung Dorothea Mueller Monika . “ Introduction .” Sleuthing Ethnicity: The Detective in Multiethnic Crime Fiction . Eds. Fischer-Hornung Dorothea Mueller Monika . Madison : Fairleigh...
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Genre (2022) 55 (2): 117–139.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., in accordance with writers’ designs, he calls attention to the mapping of character movement across a fictional landscape and the simultaneous dissemination of information. Moreover, both The Floating Admiral and Ask a Policeman contain actual maps depicting the fictional scene of the crime...
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Genre (2022) 55 (3): 179–203.
Published: 01 December 2022
... any “international plottings and war politics” in favor of “personal motives” for crime; and the fifth “Commandment” of Ronald A. Knox's ([1929] 1983 : 195) succinct “Decalogue” for writers of detective fiction includes the casually racist injunction that “no Chinaman must figure in the story...
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Genre (2016) 49 (3): 255–272.
Published: 01 December 2016
... . Lehmann Rosamond . 1982 . The Swan in the Evening: Fragments of an Inner Life . London : Virago . Levay Matthew . 2013 . “Remaining a Mystery: Gertrude Stein, Crime Fiction, and Popular Modernism.” Journal of Modern Literature 36 , no. 4 : 1 – 22 . Linklater Andro . 1992...
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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 331–353.
Published: 01 June 2002
... . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1977 . Rosenbaum Alan S. ed., Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives in Comparative Genocide . Boulder, Colorado : Westview , 1996 . Rowland Susan . From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendall: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction . Houndmills...
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Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 81–100.
Published: 01 March 2001
... Poe Poe Poe . Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday , 1972 . Reddy Maureen T. Sisters in Crime: Feminism and the Crime Novel . New York : Continuum , 1988 . Roberts Joan Warthling . “Amelia Butterworth: The Spinster Detective” in Feminism in Women's Detective Fiction , ed...
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Genre (2002) 35 (1): 143–165.
Published: 01 March 2002
... in Detective Fiction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995), that "in detective fiction gender is genre and genre is male" and that even "fem- inine notations" may "perform a masculine function" (xiv). In her study of six British women crime writers, Susan Rowland presents a dissenting opinion...
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Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 91–113.
Published: 01 March 2010
... such questions, Stein’s way of rewriting the Gothic mystery unsettles the promise and pleasure of hermeneutics associ- ated with all detective fiction: a crime is committed and detection will discover its causes. In the Gothic mystery, the narrative may establish delays and digres- sions but moves...
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Genre (2003) 36 (1-2): 29–46.
Published: 01 March 2003
...). Even when populist crime writers included the perspective and voice of the criminal, it is often only an instance of ventriloquism where the accused is made to mouth governmental fictions about criminal activity; for instance, in the ballad "A Warning for all Desperate Women" the murderess...
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Genre (2004) 37 (3-4): 395–432.
Published: 01 September 2004
... . The Augustan Reprint Society Number 43 . New York : Kraus Reprint Publications , 1967 . Beccaria Cesare . On Crimes and Punishments . Trans. Paolucci Henry . Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. , 1963 . Bender John . Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction...
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Genre (2017) 50 (1): 59–75.
Published: 01 April 2017
... of Judgment . Translated by Bernard J. H. . New York : Hafner . Citations refer to the 1951 edition . Levine George . 1981 . The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Lukács György . 2002 . Studies...
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Genre (2002) 35 (3-4): 599–624.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of violence, this essay explores the forms of literacy that emerge in seventeen incarcerated women's readings of non-fiction "true crime" books. As part of a larger study that I conducted in the North Car- olina Correctional Institution for Women, each of these women participated in three individual...