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Rape in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Beyond : Contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone Crime Fiction / edited by B. Åström, K. Gregersdotter, T. Horeck.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex (Psychology).
- Literature.
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Motion pictures, American.
- Fiction.
- Psychology of Gender and Sexuality.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- American Film and TV.
- World Literature.
- Fiction Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Psychology of Gender and Sexuality.
- Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- American Film and TV.
- World Literature.
- Fiction Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2013.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focusing on the sexualized violence of Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy - including the novels, Swedish film adaptations, and Hollywood blockbusters - this collection of essays puts Larsson's work into dialogue with Scandinavian and Anglophone crime novels by writers including Jo Nesbø, Håkan Nesser, Mo Hayder and Val McDermid.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Stieg Larsson's millennium trilogy: opening up the debate. "The girl who pays our salaries": rape and the bestselling millennium trilogy / Priscilla Walton
- The millennium trilogy and the American serial killer narrative: investigating protagonists of men who write women / Barbara Fister
- Lisbeth Salander as a melodramatic heroine: emotional conflicts, split focalization and changing roles in Scandinavian crime fiction / Yvonne Leffler
- Dismembered bodies, wounded states: gender politics in the millennium trilogy and beyond. Rape and the avenging female in Stieg Larsson's millennium trilogy and Hakan Nesser's Woman with birthmark and The inspector and Silence / Marla Harris
- The body, hopelessness and nostalgia: representations of rape and the welfare state in Swedish crime fiction / Katarina Gregersdotter
- Over her dismembered body: the crime fiction of Mo Hayder and Jo Nesbo / Berit Astrom
- Rewriting scripts: language, gender and violence in contemporary crime fiction. Disarticulated figures: language and sexual violence in contemporary crime fiction / Meghan Freeman
- Male fantasy, sexual exploitation and the femme fatale: reframing scripts of power and gender in neo-noir novels by Sara Paretsky, Megan Abbott and Stieg Larsson / Zoe Brigley-Thompson
- Ethics, violence and adaptation. Rape and replay in Stieg Larsson, Liza Marklund and Val McDermid: on affect, ethics and feeling bad / Tanya Horeck
- The girl with the dragon tattoo: rape, revenge and victimhood in cinematic translation / Claire Henry
- "Hidden in the snow": female violence against the men who hate women in the millennium adaptations / Philippa Gates.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283737791
- 1283737795
- 9781137291639
- 113729163X
- OCLC:
- 818819301
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