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Autore |
McCaw Neil |
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Titolo |
Adapting detective fiction [[electronic resource] ] : crime, Englishness and the TV detectives / / Neil McCaw |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-91261-5 |
9786612912610 |
1-4411-5662-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 p.) |
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Collana |
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Continuum literary studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Detective and mystery stories, English |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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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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Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction - Adaptation and Cultural History; Chapter 2: Sherlock Holmes and the Authenticity of Crime; Chapter 3: Miss Marple, Criminality and Englishness; Chapter 4: Morse, Heritage and the End of History; Chapter 5: Jack Frost and the Condition of England Question; Chapter 6: Cadfael, Medievalism and Modern Nationhood; Chapter 7: DCI Barnaby and an English Aesthetics of Crime; Chapter 8: Conclusion - Detecting the Nation; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Adapting Detective Fiction is a study of specific instances of adaptation, with close readings of both the originating sources and adapted texts. But it is also more than this. It is a study of the politics of representation in the last decades of the twentieth century, and the role television detective fiction plays in this. It is about the mutually-informing interrelation of cultural texts and political rhetoric, about the connection between the popular-cultural depiction of crime and criminality and how we come to understand human behaviour and culpability; most of all, it is a detailed con |
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