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UNINA9910149556703321 |
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Stougaard-Nielsen Jakob |
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Titolo |
Scandinavian crime fiction / / Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen |
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London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017 |
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9781350001121 |
1350001120 |
9781472522139 |
1472522133 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 pages) |
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Collana |
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21st century genre fiction |
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Crime in literature |
Detective and mystery stories, Scandinavian - History and criticism |
Scandinavian fiction - 21st century - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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"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. |
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UNINA9910954638703321 |
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Autore |
Lincoln Bruce |
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Religion, empire, and torture : the case of Achaemenian Persia, with a postscript on Abu Ghraib / / Bruce Lincoln |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
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9786612537905 |
9781282537903 |
1282537903 |
9780226481913 |
0226481913 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (195 p.) |
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Religion and politics |
Religion and politics - Iran |
Iran History To 640 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-167) and index. |
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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. |
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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 |
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