1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910149556703321

Autore

Stougaard-Nielsen Jakob

Titolo

Scandinavian crime fiction / / Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017

ISBN

9781350001121

1350001120

9781472522139

1472522133

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 pages)

Collana

21st century genre fiction

Disciplina

839/.5

Soggetti

Crime in literature

Detective and mystery stories, Scandinavian - History and criticism

Scandinavian fiction - 21st century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Scandinavian Crime Fiction and the Welfare State -- Welfare Crime: Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Novel of a Crime -- The Hardboiled Social Worker: Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum -- Crime Fiction in an Age of Crisis: Henning Mankell's Faceless Killers and Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -- Landscape and Memory in the Criminal Periphery -- Criminal Peripheries: Peter Høeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow and Kerstin Ekman's Blackwater -- Investigating the Family in the Welfare State -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy, Henning Mankell's Wallander books and TV series such as The Killing. Including guides to further reading and online resources to help readers explore the genre for themselves, this book is essential for readers, viewers and fans of contemporary crime writing."--Bloomsbury Publishing.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954638703321

Autore

Lincoln Bruce

Titolo

Religion, empire, and torture : the case of Achaemenian Persia, with a postscript on Abu Ghraib / / Bruce Lincoln

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007

ISBN

9786612537905

9781282537903

1282537903

9780226481913

0226481913

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 p.)

Disciplina

935/.05

Soggetti

Religion and politics

Religion and politics - Iran

Iran History To 640

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-167) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Center and periphery -- God's chosen -- Creation -- Microcosms, wonders, paradise -- The dark side of paradise -- Postscript: on Abu Ghraib and some related contemporary matters.

Sommario/riassunto

How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently this question has acquired new urgency, and in Religion, Empire, and Torture, Bruce Lincoln approaches the problem via a classic but little-studied case: Achaemenian Persia.Lincoln identifies three core components of an imperial theology that have transhistorical and contemporary relevance: dualistic ethics, a theory of divine election, and a sense of salvific mission. Beyond this, he asks, how did the Achaemenians understand their place in the cosmos and their moral status in relation