The English Crime Play In The Twentieth Century
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The English Crime Play In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Beatrix Hesse
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-08-02
The English Crime Play In The Twentieth Century written by Beatrix Hesse and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first comprehensive study of the English crime play, presenting a survey of 250 plays performed in the London West End between 1900 and 2000. The first part is historically orientated while the second one establishes a tentative poetics of the genre. The third part presents an analysis of some 20 plays adapted from detective fiction.
The English Crime Play In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Beatrix Hesse
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-08-02
The English Crime Play In The Twentieth Century written by Beatrix Hesse and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first comprehensive study of the English crime play, presenting a survey of 250 plays performed in the London West End between 1900 and 2000. The first part is historically orientated while the second one establishes a tentative poetics of the genre. The third part presents an analysis of some 20 plays adapted from detective fiction.
Twentieth Century Crime Mystery Writers
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Author : NA NA
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-12-25
Twentieth Century Crime Mystery Writers written by NA NA and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Twentieth Century Crime Fiction
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Author : Lee Horsley
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2005
Twentieth Century Crime Fiction written by Lee Horsley and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction aims to enhance understanding of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction by examining a wide variety of the detective and crime fiction produced in Britain and America during the twentieth century. It will be of interest to anyone who enjoys reading crime fiction but is specifically designed with the needs of students in mind. It introduces different theoretical approaches to crime fiction (e.g., formalist, historicist, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, feminist) and will be a useful supplement to a range of crime fiction courses, whether they focus on historical contexts, ideological shifts, the emergence of sub-genres, or the application of critical theories. Forty-seven widely available stories and novels are chosen for detailed discussion. In seeking to illuminate the relationship between different phases of generic development Lee Horsley employs an overlapping historical framework, with sections doubling back chronologically in order to explore the extent to which successive transformations have their roots within the earlier phases of crime writing, as well as responding in complex ways to the preoccupations and anxieties of their own eras. The first part of the study considers the nature and evolution of the main sub-genres of crime fiction: the classic and hard-boiled strands of detective fiction, the non-investigative crime novel (centered on transgressors or victims), and the "mixed" form of the police procedural. The second half of the study examines the ways in which writers have used crime fiction as a vehicle for socio-political critique. These chapters consider the evolution of committed, oppositional strategies, tracing the development of politicized detective and crime fiction, from Depression-era protests against economic injustice to more recent decades which have seen writers launching protests against ecological crimes, rampant consumerism, Reaganomics, racism, and sexism.
Crime And Society In Twentieth Century England
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Author : Clive Emsley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-06-28
Crime And Society In Twentieth Century England written by Clive Emsley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-28 with categories.
Crime and Society in Twentieth-Century England traces the broad pattern of criminal offending over a hundred year period that experienced unprecedented levels of upheaval and change. This period included two world wars, the end of the British Empire, significant shifts in both gender relations and ethnic mix and a decline in the power of the economy. In this new textbook, Professor Clive Emsley provides an up-to-date assessment of changes in attitudes to crime as well as of the developments in policing, in the courts and in penal sanctions over the course of the century. He explores the impact of growing gender equality and ethnic diversity on crime and criminal justice, and looks at the way in which crime became increasingly central to political agendas in the last third of the century. Written in a clear and accessible manner, the book examines: Perceptions of crime and criminality across the century Varieties of offending from murder to benefit fraud The role of the media in constructing and reinforcing the understanding of crime and the criminal The decline and demise of corporal and capital punishment The shift from largely progressive to more punitive penal practice The first serious attempt to explore the history of crime and criminal justice in twentieth-century England, this book will be an invaluable introduction to the student and interested general reader alike.
The Crime Of The Twenty First Century
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Author : Edward Bond
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-05-27
The Crime Of The Twenty First Century written by Edward Bond and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Drama categories.
One of Britain's greatest living contemporary dramatists, Edward Bond is widely studied by schools and colleges. The collection includes a commentary by the author. The twenty-first century. The past has been abolished and geography - even the sky - is changed. A woman lives in the vast desert of white rubble. A tiny group of people come to her seeking a hiding place but instead are exposed to the deepest uncertainties of their own condition.Edward Bond is "a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright" (Independent)
Twentieth Century Crime And Mystery Writers
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Author : Lesley Henderson
language : en
Publisher: Chicago : St. James Press
Release Date : 1991
Twentieth Century Crime And Mystery Writers written by Lesley Henderson and has been published by Chicago : St. James Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with American fiction categories.
**** Cited in Sheehy and BCL3. The foremost reference in the field, completely revised and updated, and now covering about 600 authors, mainly English-language writers whose work appeared during or since the time of Conan Doyle. The entry for each writer consists of a biography, a bibliography, and a signed critical essay. Living authors were invited to add a comment on their work; many of them accepted, and their remarks are both entertaining and enlightening. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Twentieth Century Suspense
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Author : Clive Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1990-05-01
Twentieth Century Suspense written by Clive Bloom and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-05-01 with Fiction categories.
This series aims to bring to academics, students and general readers the best contemporary criticism on neglected literary and cultural areas. This volume contains 17 critical essays on influential suspense writers of the 20th century.
Framed
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Author : Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2008-10-30
Framed written by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
By introducing us to the New Woman Criminal, Framed offers a profoundly different view of the fin de siècle British crime narrative
The Rise Of True Crime
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Author : Jean Murley
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2008-08-30
The Rise Of True Crime written by Jean Murley and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-30 with Social Science categories.
During the 1950s and 1960s True Detective magazine developed a new way of narrating and understanding murder. It was more sensitive to context, gave more psychologically sophisticated accounts, and was more willing to make conjectures about the unknown thoughts and motivations of killers than others had been before. This turned out to be the start of a revolution, and, after a century of escalating accounts, we have now become a nation of experts, with many ordinary people able to speak intelligently about blood-spatter patterns and organized vs. disorganized serial killers. The Rise of True Crime examines the various genres of true crime using the most popular and well-known examples. And despite its examination of some of the potentially negative effects of the genre, it is written for people who read and enjoy true crime, and wish to learn more about it. With skyrocketing crime rates and the appearance of a frightening trend toward social chaos in the 1970s, books, documentaries, and fiction films in the true crime genre tried to make sense of the Charles Manson crimes and the Gary Gilmore execution events. And in the 1980s and 1990s, true crime taught pop culture consumers about forensics, profiling, and highly technical aspects of criminology. We have thus now become a nation of experts, with many ordinary people able to speak intelligently about blood-spatter patterns and organized vs. disorganized serial killers. Through the suggestion that certain kinds of killers are monstrous or outside the realm of human morality, and through the perpetuation of the stranger-danger idea, the true crime aesthetic has both responded to and fostered our culture's fears. True crime is also the site of a dramatic confrontation with the concept of evil, and one of the few places in American public discourse where moral terms are used without any irony, and notions and definitions of evil are presented without ambiguity. When seen within its historical context, true crime emerges as a vibrant and meaningful strand of popular culture, one that is unfortunately devalued as lurid and meaningless pulp.