Crime fiction

By: Scaggs, JohnMaterial type: TextTextSeries: The New Critical IdiomPublication details: London Routledge 2005Description: 170pISBN: 9780415318242Subject(s): Detective and mystery stories, English-History and criticism | Crime in literature | Detective and mystery stories, AmericanDDC classification: 823.087209 Summary: Crime Fiction provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels, short stories, films and televisions series, John Scaggs: -presents a concise history of crime fiction - from biblical narratives to James Ellroy - broadening the genre to include revenge tragedy and the gothic novel -explores the key sub-genres of crime fiction, such as 'Rational Criminal Investigation', The Hard-Boiled Mode', 'The Police Procedural' and 'Historical Crime Fiction' -locates texts and their recurring themes and motifs in a wider social and historical context -outlines the various critical concepts that are central to the study of crime fiction, including gender, narrative theory and film theory -considers contemporary television series like C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation alongside the 'classic' whodunnits of Agatha Christie. Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for all those studying crime fiction and concludes with a look at future directions for the genre in the twentieth-first century.
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Crime Fiction provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels, short stories, films and televisions series, John Scaggs:

-presents a concise history of crime fiction - from biblical narratives to James Ellroy - broadening the genre to include revenge tragedy and the gothic novel
-explores the key sub-genres of crime fiction, such as 'Rational Criminal Investigation', The Hard-Boiled Mode', 'The Police Procedural' and 'Historical Crime Fiction'
-locates texts and their recurring themes and motifs in a wider social and historical context
-outlines the various critical concepts that are central to the study of crime fiction, including gender, narrative theory and film theory
-considers contemporary television series like C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation alongside the 'classic' whodunnits of Agatha Christie.
Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for all those studying crime fiction and concludes with a look at future directions for the genre in the twentieth-first century.

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