Italian crime fiction / edited by Giuliana Pieri ; contributors, Jennifer Burns [and six others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pieri, Giuliana, editor.

Burns, Jennifer, contributor.

Series:

European crime fictions.

European Crime Fictions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery stories, Italian--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories, Italian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, [Wales] : University of Wales Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The present volume is the first study in the English language to focus specifically on Italian crime fiction, weaving together a historical perspective and a thematic approach, with a particular focus on the representation of space, especially city space, gender, and the tradition of impegno, the social and political engagement which characterised the Italian cultural and literary scene in the postwar period. The chapters, by leading British and North-American scholars, track the history and development of Italian detective and noir fiction from the 1930's to the present with a particular focus

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction; The Emergence of a New Literary Genre in Interwar Italy; Founding Fathers: Giorgio Scerbanenco; Literature and the Giallo: Gadda, Eco, Tabucchi and Sciascia; The Mysteries of Bologna: On Some Trends of the Contemporary Giallo; Crime and the South; Italian Women Crime Writers; Milano nera: Representing and Imagining Milan in Italian Noir and Crime Fiction; Annotated Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 26, 2015).

ISBN:

0-7083-2433-9

1-299-20105-9

OCLC:

772517716