Methods of Murder : : Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction / / Elena M. Past.
The first extended analysis of the relationship between Italian criminology and crime fiction in English, Methods of Murder examines works by major authors both popular, such as Gianrico Carofiglio, and canonical, such as Carlo Emilio Gadda.Many scholars have argued that detective fiction did not ex...
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Past, Elena M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Methods of Murder : Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction / Elena M. Past. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017] ©2012 1 online resource (384 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Mysterious Case of Crime Fiction in Italy -- PART ONE. Beccarian Introspection -- 1. Investigative Introspection: Cesare Beccaria's Disembodied Criminal -- 2. Dark Ends for Leonardo Sciascia's Enlightened Detectives -- 3. Andrea Camilleri's Sicilian Simulacrum -- 4. Violence and the Law in Gianrico Carofiglio's Beccarian Courtroom -- PART TWO. Lombrosian Vivisection -- 5. Cesare Lombroso Vivisects the Criminal -- 6. Carlo Emilio Gadda's Bodies of Evidence -- 7. Dario Argento's Aesthetics of Violence -- 8. Carlo Lucarelli's Lombrosian Nightmare -- Epilogue: Crime in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The first extended analysis of the relationship between Italian criminology and crime fiction in English, Methods of Murder examines works by major authors both popular, such as Gianrico Carofiglio, and canonical, such as Carlo Emilio Gadda.Many scholars have argued that detective fiction did not exist in Italy until 1929, and that the genre, which was considered largely Anglo-Saxon, was irrelevant on the Italian peninsula. By contrast, Past traces the roots of the twentieth-century literature and cinema of crime to two much earlier, diverging interpretations of the criminal: the bodiless figure of Cesare Beccaria's Enlightenment-era On Crimes and Punishments, and the biological offender of Cesare Lombroso's positivist Criminal Man.Through her examinations of these texts, Past demonstrates the links between literary, philosophical, and scientific constructions of the criminal, and provides the basis for an important reconceptualization of Italian crime fiction. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) Crime in literature. Detective and mystery stories, Italian History and criticism. DISCOUNT-B. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian. bisacsh print 9781442643888 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442698093 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442698093 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442698093.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Mysterious Case of Crime Fiction in Italy -- PART ONE. Beccarian Introspection -- 1. Investigative Introspection: Cesare Beccaria's Disembodied Criminal -- 2. Dark Ends for Leonardo Sciascia's Enlightened Detectives -- 3. Andrea Camilleri's Sicilian Simulacrum -- 4. Violence and the Law in Gianrico Carofiglio's Beccarian Courtroom -- PART TWO. Lombrosian Vivisection -- 5. Cesare Lombroso Vivisects the Criminal -- 6. Carlo Emilio Gadda's Bodies of Evidence -- 7. Dario Argento's Aesthetics of Violence -- 8. Carlo Lucarelli's Lombrosian Nightmare -- Epilogue: Crime in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Mysterious Case of Crime Fiction in Italy -- PART ONE. Beccarian Introspection -- 1. Investigative Introspection: Cesare Beccaria's Disembodied Criminal -- 2. Dark Ends for Leonardo Sciascia's Enlightened Detectives -- 3. Andrea Camilleri's Sicilian Simulacrum -- 4. Violence and the Law in Gianrico Carofiglio's Beccarian Courtroom -- PART TWO. Lombrosian Vivisection -- 5. Cesare Lombroso Vivisects the Criminal -- 6. Carlo Emilio Gadda's Bodies of Evidence -- 7. Dario Argento's Aesthetics of Violence -- 8. Carlo Lucarelli's Lombrosian Nightmare -- Epilogue: Crime in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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