Crime fiction as world literature. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Louise Nilsson, David Damrosch, and Theo D'haen.
• Editors: Nilsson, Louise, 1973-; Damrosch, David; Haen, Theo d'
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Crime Fictionas World Literature; Note; Part One Global and Local; 1 The Knife in the Lemon: Nordic Noir and the Glocalization of Crime Fiction; Sofie Sarenbrant's Visning pågår and the Swedish housing bubble; Kåre Halldén and the Wine Crime series; Crime fiction as glocal literature; Works Cited; 2 After Such Knowledge: The Politics of Detection in the Narconovelas of Elmer Mendoza; Notes; Works Cited; 3 Red Herrings and Read Alerts: Crime and its Excesses in Almost Blue and Nairobi Heat; Works Cited 4 The Detective is Suspended: Nordic Noir and the Welfare StateNotes; Works Cited; 5 Four Generations, One Crime; Notes; Works Cited; Part Two Market Mechanisms; 6 With a Global Market in Mind: Agents, Authors, and the Dissemination of Contemporary Swedish Crime Fiction; Swedish crime fiction and Swedish literary agents; Book fairs as places of dissemination; The global and the local-producing world literature; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; 7 So You Think You Can Write ... Handbooks for Mystery Fiction; A brief history of literary advice; The rules of the game From Poe to Aristotle: Mystery as literary genreThe detective story as a modern genre; The contemporary mystery market; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; 8 Covering Crime Fiction: Merging the Local into Cosmopolitan Mediascapes; Breaking down covers; Cover stories; Notes; Works Cited; 9 Surrealist Noir: Aragon's Le Cahier noir and Pamuk's The Black Book; Louis Aragon and La Défense de l'infini, a novel for posterity; The two black books; Works Cited; Part Three Translating Crime; 10 Detective Fiction in Translation: Shifting Patterns of Reception; Works Cited 11 Making it Ours: Translation and the Circulation of Crime Fiction in CatalanNotes; Works Cited; 12 "In Agatha Christie's Footsteps": The Cursed Goblet and Contemporary Bulgarian Crime Fiction; Notes; Works Cited; 13 A Missing Literature: Dror Mishani and the Case of Israeli Crime Fiction; Works Cited; 14 World Detective Form and Thai Crime Fiction; The dawn of Thai crime fiction; Phrae dam: Crimes and the urbanization of Bangkok; Adventures in Thailand's rural backcountry; Voices of authority: Policing and crime fiction; Contemporary imaginings: New debates, old format?; Works Cited Part Four Holmes Away from Home15 Holmes Away from Home: The Great Detective in the Transnational Literary Network; Circulation, translation, adaptation; The reprint of a (fictional) memoir: A Study in Scarlet; To tell whether the boy is Indian or not: "Feluda in London"; Conclusions; Notes; Works Cited; 16 Sherlock's Queen Bee; Works Cited; 17 Sherlock Holmes Came to China: Detective Fiction, Cultural Meditations, and Chinese Modernity; Notes; Works Cited; 18 A Sinister Chuckle: Sherlock in Tibet; Works Cited
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 301 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 809.3/872; Literary theory; Crime in literature; Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism; Literary Criticism -- General; Literary Criticism -- Mystery & Detective; Literary studies: general; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501319341; 1501319345; 9781501319358; 1501319353
• Related ISBNs: 9781501319327; 1501319329
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 11, 2017).
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