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Autore |
Barnes Charlotte |
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Titolo |
Deconstructing true crime literature / / Charlotte Barnes |
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Cham, Switzerland : , : Macmillan Palgrave, , [2023] |
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©2023 |
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ISBN |
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9783031410451 |
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9783031410444 |
3031410440 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 212 pages) |
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Collana |
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Crime Files Series, , 2947-8359 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chapter one: Introduction -- Chapter two: Time of Death: The early era of True Crime -- Chapter three: Writing the “I” in True Crime -- Chapter four: Vincent Bugliosi’s Objectivity: Can we side-step bias in True Crime? -- Chapter five: The Writer Inside Me: Does Ann Rule’s proximity to the serial killer celebrity translate to a reliable re-telling? -- Chapter six: Writing True Crime from a safe distance -- Chapter seven: Truman Capote’s World of Make-Believe: How does figurative language and creative license distort truth in In Cold Blood? -- Chapter eight: 3,500 files and an unfinished script: Is well-curated research and collaboration the key to truthful True Crime, considered through Michelle McNamara’s I’ll Be Gone in the Dark? -- Chapter nine: Writing creative (true) crime narratives -- Chapter ten: Manson’s Girls Make a Comeback: How (c)overt is the influence of the Charles Manson case on Emma Cline’s The Girls, and should readers be expected to ignore the connections? -- Chapter eleven: Narrative Hybridity in True Crime: Is Maggie Nelson integrating poetry into the True Crime genre? -- Chapter twelve: Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"This book provides a critical discussion of True Crime literature, arguing for the deconstruction of the genre into subgenres that better reflect a work’s contents. In analysing seminal and lesser-known |
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works, the areas of authenticity, accuracy, and author proximity are considered to form a framework on which an individual publication’s subgenre (re)categorisation can be assessed. The book considers the likes of Ann Rule, Truman Capote, and Maggie Nelson, among other notable authors. Their works – those that fit into True Crime and those that defy categorisation within the genre as it exists – are reviewed, and their defining features critiqued. Topics such as narrative methodologies, figurative language, and utilisation of research are considered in support of this. These strands combine to a larger discussion regarding a deconstruction of True Crime, and the ways in which this will improve the social responsibility of the genre, and encourage a more conscientious consumerism of it."--Provided by publisher. |
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