The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction
A Bloody Journey
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European, Italian, Mystery & Detective Fiction, Nonfiction, History, Italy
| Author: | Barbara Pezzotti | ISBN: | 9781611475531 |
| Publisher: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press | Publication: | September 14, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Barbara Pezzotti |
| ISBN: | 9781611475531 |
| Publisher: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Publication: | September 14, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Language: | English |
This book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last 20 years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. While the relation between detective fiction and its setting has been extensively analysed in the Anglo-American critical tradition of the genre, no comparable study of the Italian giallo [the name used for crime fiction in Italy] exists to date.
This book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last 20 years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. While the relation between detective fiction and its setting has been extensively analysed in the Anglo-American critical tradition of the genre, no comparable study of the Italian giallo [the name used for crime fiction in Italy] exists to date.
