The pleasures of crime : reading modern French crime fiction / / David Platten.
For 150 years the French public and literati have enjoyed a love affair with crime fiction. This book investigates the nature of this relationship and how through periods of dramatic social and political change in France it has flourished. It challenges the conventional view of a popular genre feedi...
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| Superior document: | Chiasma ; 28 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Chiasma ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Acknowledgements
- Forbidden Fruit
- ‘Black’ Markets: the Emergence of the Genre in France
- Profusion and Profundity: Simenon and the Paradox of the Crime Novel
- Framing the Noir: The Individual in Society
- The Aesthetics of Commitment
- The Scene of the Crime
- Shades of Noir: Modern and Contemporary French Crime Fiction
- ‘Une Nouvelle Nouvelle Classe d’Âge: Youth Culture and the Roman Noir
- Mapping Minds and Figuring Plots: the Novels of Fred Vargas
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- index.