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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Place It Was Done: Location and Community in Contemporary American and British Crime Fiction

The Place It Was Done: Location and Community in Contemporary American and British Crime Fiction

Bubíková, Sárka
Roebuck, Olga

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1476687773
ISBN13: 9781476687773
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Mar 3 2023
Pages: 193
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.82
Language: English

Locations play an important role in every story, but in British and American contemporary crime fiction, they are often inextricable from the narrative. This work examines the city, the countryside and the wilderness as places ripe with literary significance and symbolism.

Using works by authors like Robert Galbraith, Ian Rankin, Denise Mina, Chris Brookmyre, John Knox, Peter Robinson, Linda Barnes, Dana Stabenow, Nevada Barr, Les Roberts, Philip R. Craig, and others, this work offers a fresh assessment of how place and space are employed in contemporary crime fiction. Highlighted are similarities and differences among the authors' approaches to setting, and how they relate to the history of crime fiction and to the general literary representation of place. Going beyond mere literary geography, the book engages the sociocultural dimensions of the communities affected by crime. Chapters also analyze the reader's perception, recognition and appreciation of place and community.

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