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Differences, deceits and desires : murder and mayhem in Italian crime fiction / edited by Mirna Cicioni and Nicoletta Di Ciolla.
- Title
- Differences, deceits and desires : murder and mayhem in Italian crime fiction / edited by Mirna Cicioni and Nicoletta Di Ciolla.
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2008.
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- Description
- 228 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Italian crime fiction (known as gialli in Italy) has developed from a popular genre to a fully-fledged literary genre; and in the past thirty years it has gradually become the focus of growing interest from literary critics as well as the reading public." "This collection of twelve essays is the first one in English to deal exclusively with Italian crime fiction. The essays are scholarly yet accessible contributions to the growing research in this field. The analyze texts by well-known authors (such as Umberto Eco, Leonardo Sciascia and Andrea Camilleri) as well as works by younger writers. They bring together four of the most significant strands of Italian gialli: the way gialli develop or subvert the tradition and conventions of the crime genre; regional specificity within Italian crime fiction; gialli by and about women, lesbians and gay men; and representations of Italy in gialli written by English-speaking writers."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Monash romance studies
- Uniform Title
- Monash Romance studies (Newark, Del.)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Note
- Papers presented at a conference: Murder and mayhem in the Mediterranean.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-225).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- On the margins: Antonio Tabucchi's investigative reflections / Rita Wilson -- Arsène Lupin meets Sam Spade and Phil Marlowe: citations from the tradition of the detective novel in the works of Umberto Eco / Thomas Stauder -- Tornatore's una pura formalitá: a supernatural subversion of detective narratives / William Hope -- Murder in Sicily: Commissario Montalbano talks about his author's literary traditions / Elgin Eckert -- La donna della domenica and the Italian detective novel of the 1970s / Franco Manai -- Il giorno della civetta to Il cavaliere e la morte : continuity and change in the detective fiction of Leonardo Sciascia / Ian Morrison -- Murder and mayhem around the Via Emilia / Angela Barwig -- From novel to film: re-instating patriarchal order to Dacia Maraini's Voci / Bernadette Luciano -- Loyalties and lesbianism in the novels of Fiorella Cagnoni / Mirna Cicioni -- Reconfiguring the family, incorporating diversity and making the imagined real: Gianni Farinetti's use of the noir as a transformative genre / Nicoletta Di Ciolla -- Now and zen: anglophone representations of Italy in early modern revenge tragedy and Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen novels / John Scaggs -- Learning Italian: serial killers abroad in the novels of Highsmith and Harris / Katharine and Lee Horsley.
- ISBN
- 9780874130515 (alk. paper)
- 0874130514 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008021050
- OCLC
- 228363610
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library