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Methods of Murder : Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction / Elena M. Past.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Past, Elena M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di, 1738-1794. Dei delitti e delle pene.
- Beccaria, Cesare.
- Lombroso, Cesare, 1835-1909. Uomo delinquente.
- Lombroso, Cesare.
- Detective and mystery stories, Italian--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories, Italian.
- Dei delitti e delle pene (Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (364 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Past traces the roots of the twentieth-century literature and cinema of crime to two much earlier, diverging interpretations of the criminal: the bodiless figure of Cesare Beccaria's Enlightenment-era On Crimes and Punishments, and the biological offender of Cesare Lombroso's positivist Criminal Man.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Mysterious Case of Crime Fiction in Italy
- Part One: Beccarian Introspection
- 1 Investigative Introspection: Cesare Beccaria's Disembodied Criminal
- 2 Dark Ends for Leonardo Sciascia's Enlightened Detectives
- 3 Andrea Camilleri's Sicilian Simulacrum
- 4 Violence and the Law in Gianrico Carofiglio's Beccarian Courtroom
- Part Two: Lombrosian Vivisection
- 5 Cesare Lombroso Vivisects the Criminal
- 6 Carlo Emilio Gadda's Bodies of Evidence
- 7 Dario Argento's Aesthetics of Violence
- 8 Carlo Lucarelli's Lombrosian Nightmare
- Epilogue: Crime in the Twenty-First Century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)
- ISBN:
- 9781442698109
- 1442698101
- 9781442698093
- 1442698098
- OCLC:
- 794619859
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