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Mediterranean Crime Fiction

Transcultural Narratives in and around the ‘Great Sea'

By: Barbara Pezzotti

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Mediterranean Crime Fiction

Transcultural Narratives in and around the ‘Great Sea'

By: Barbara Pezzotti

By exploring the transcultural nature of Mediterranean crime fiction, Barbara Pezzotti advocates for a regional 'reading' of the genre.

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241

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Cambridge University Press

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ISBN 10

1009451472

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9781009451475

Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction

An Historical Overview

By: Barbara Pezzotti

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Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction

An Historical Overview

By: Barbara Pezzotti

This book comprehensively covers the history of Italian crime fiction from its origins to the present. Using the concept of "moral rebellion," the author examines the ways in which Italian crime fiction has articulated the country's social and political changes. The book concentrates on such writers as Augusto de Angelis (1888-1944), Giorgio Scerbanenco (1911-1969), Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989), Andrea Camilleri (b. 1925), Loriano Macchiavelli (b. 1934), Massimo Carlotto (b. 1956), and Marcello Fois (b. 1960). Through the analysis of writers belonging to differing crucial periods of Italy's history, this work reveals the many ways in which authors exploit the genre to reflect social transformation and dysfunction.

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243

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McFarland

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1476613567

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9781476613567

The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

A Bloody Journey

By: Barbara Pezzotti

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The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

A Bloody Journey

By: Barbara Pezzotti

By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last 20 years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. Nowadays there is a general acknowledgment of the importance of place in Italian crime novels. However, apart from a limited scholarship on single cities, the genre has never been systematically studied in a way that so comprehensively spans Italian national boundaries. The originality of this volume also lies in the fact that the author have not limited her investigation to a series of cities, but rather she has considered the different forms of (social) landscape in which Italian crime novels are set. Through the analysis of the way in which cities, the "urban sprawl," and islands are represented in the serial novels of 11 of the most important contemporary crime writers in Italy of the 1990s, Pezzotti articulates the different ways in which individual authors appropriate the structures and tropes of the genre to reflect the social transformations and dysfunctions of contemporary Italy. In so doing, this volume also makes a case for the genre as an instrument of social critique and analysis of a still elusive Italian national identity, thus bringing further evidence in support of the thesis that in Italy detective fiction has come to play the role of the new "social novel.

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223

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Fairleigh Dickinson

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1611475538

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9781611475531

Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series

Murder in the Age of Chaos

By: Barbara Pezzotti

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Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series

Murder in the Age of Chaos

By: Barbara Pezzotti

This book is the first monograph in English that comprehensively examines the ways in which Italian historical crime novels, TV series, and films have become a means to intervene in the social and political changes of the country. This study explores the ways in which fictional representations of the past mirror contemporaneous anxieties within Italian society in the work of writers such as Leonardo Sciascia, Andrea Camilleri, Carlo Lucarelli, Francesco Guccini, Loriano Macchiavelli, Marcello Fois, Maurizio De Giovanni, and Giancarlo De Cataldo; film directors such as Elio Petri, Pietro Germi, Michele Placido, and Damiano Damiani; and TV series such as the “Commissario De Luca” series, the “Commissario Nardone” series, and “Romanzo criminale–The series.” Providing the most wide-ranging examination of this sub-genre in Italy, Barbara Pezzotti places works set in the Risorgimento, WWII, and the Years of Lead in the larger social and political context of contemporary Italy.

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277

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Springer

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1349949086

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9781349949083

The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

A Bloody Journey

By: Barbara Pezzotti

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A Bloody Journey

By: Barbara Pezzotti

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Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series

Murder in the Age of Chaos

By: Barbara Pezzotti

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Murder in the Age of Chaos

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Book's by Barbara Pezzotti

Mediterranean Crime Fiction

Mediterranean Crime Fiction

Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction

Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction

The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series

Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series

The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series

Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series

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