Crime and punishment in the Middle Ages and early modern age [[electronic resource] ] : mental-historical investigations of basic human problems and social responses / / edited by Albrecht Classen, Connie Scarborough |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston, : de Gruyter, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (612 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933556 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ClassenAlbrecht
ScarboroughConnie L. <1954-> |
Collana | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture |
Soggetto topico |
Crime in literature
Literature, Medieval - History and criticism European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism Punishment in literature Deviant behavior in literature Justice in literature Social control in literature Social norms in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-85738-3
3-11-029458-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction. Crime, Transgression, and Deviancy: Behaviors that Defines Us All / Classen, Albrecht / Scarborough, Connie -- Chapter 1. Le 'crime épique' et sa punition: quelques exemples (XIIe-XIIIe siècles) / Ribémont, Bernard -- Chapter 2. "I know how to be a whore and thief" The poet's reputation: troubadours - ancestors of poètes maudits? / Niiranen, Susanna -- Chapter 3. The Law - Letter and Spirit: Language, Transgression and Justice In Three Medieval German Epic Poems / Clason, Christopher R. -- Chapter 4. Crime, Punishment and the Hybrid in Medieval French Romance: Robert the Devil and Geoffrey Big Tooth / Hahn, Stacey -- Chapter 5. Judicium Dei, vulgaris popularisque sensus: Survival of Customary Justice and Resistance to its Displacement by the "New" Ordines iudiciorum as Evidenced by Francophonic Literature of the High Middle Ages / Taylor, Scott L. -- Chapter 6. Crime and Violence in the Middle Ages: The Cases of Heinrich der Glichezare's Reinhard Fuchs and Wernher der Gartenære's Helmbrecht / Classen, Albrecht -- Chapter 7. The Function of Projected Pain: The Poetry of François Villon and the Gift of Self / Gough, John -- Chapter 8. Retribution in Gamelyn: A Case in the Courts / Jost, Jean E. -- Chapter 9. Contra Signum Nostrum: The Symbolism of Lèse-majesté under Philip VI Valois / Komornicka, Jolanta N. -- Chapter 10. Women as Victims and Criminals in the Siete Partidas / Scarborough, Connie L. -- Chapter 11. Theft in Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor / Ruiz, Maria Cecilia -- Chapter 12. Competition for the Prisoner's Body: Wardens and Jailers in Fourteenth-Century Southern France / Turning, Patricia -- Chapter 13. The Host on the Doorstep: Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders in an Alleged Host Desecration in Fourteenth-Century Austria / Wiedl, Birgit -- Chapter 14. Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?: Chaucer's Physician's Tale and the Worlds of Judgment / Pigg, Daniel F. -- Chapter 15. Deviancy in the Late Middle Ages: The Crimes and Punishment of Gilles de Rais / Ross, Lia B. -- Chapter 16. The Celebratory Conical Hat in La Celestina / Beusterien, John -- Chapter 17. Equal Opportunity Vengeance in the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre / Llewellyn, Kathleen M. -- Chapter 18. Crimes et Châtiments d'Exception en France au Temps des Guerres de Religion: l'Utopie Judiciaire des Commentaires de Monluc (livres V à VII) / Lombart, Nicolas -- Chapter 19. The Amsterdam Spinhuis and the "Art" of Correction / Moffitt Peacock, Martha -- Chapter 20. Pimping for the Fairy Queen: Some Cozeners in Shakespeare's England / Willard, Thomas -- Chapter 21. Réflexions de Montaigne sur le châtiment des criminels / Bjaï, Denis -- Chapter 22. The Ultimate Crime: Cannibalism in Early Modern Minds and Imaginations / Coudert, Allison P. -- Chapter 23. Punishment Post Mortem - The Crime of Suicide in Early Modern Austria and Sweden / Luef, Evelyne -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgment and Gratitude |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462624203321 |
Berlin ; ; Boston, : de Gruyter, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Crime and punishment in the Middle Ages and early modern age [[electronic resource] ] : mental-historical investigations of basic human problems and social responses / / edited by Albrecht Classen, Connie Scarborough |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston, : de Gruyter, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (612 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933556 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ClassenAlbrecht
ScarboroughConnie L. <1954-> |
Collana | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture |
Soggetto topico |
Crime in literature
Literature, Medieval - History and criticism European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism Punishment in literature Deviant behavior in literature Justice in literature Social control in literature Social norms in literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
Crime
Medieval Culture Medieval Law Medieval Literature Punishment |
ISBN |
1-283-85738-3
3-11-029458-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction. Crime, Transgression, and Deviancy: Behaviors that Defines Us All / Classen, Albrecht / Scarborough, Connie -- Chapter 1. Le 'crime épique' et sa punition: quelques exemples (XIIe-XIIIe siècles) / Ribémont, Bernard -- Chapter 2. "I know how to be a whore and thief" The poet's reputation: troubadours - ancestors of poètes maudits? / Niiranen, Susanna -- Chapter 3. The Law - Letter and Spirit: Language, Transgression and Justice In Three Medieval German Epic Poems / Clason, Christopher R. -- Chapter 4. Crime, Punishment and the Hybrid in Medieval French Romance: Robert the Devil and Geoffrey Big Tooth / Hahn, Stacey -- Chapter 5. Judicium Dei, vulgaris popularisque sensus: Survival of Customary Justice and Resistance to its Displacement by the "New" Ordines iudiciorum as Evidenced by Francophonic Literature of the High Middle Ages / Taylor, Scott L. -- Chapter 6. Crime and Violence in the Middle Ages: The Cases of Heinrich der Glichezare's Reinhard Fuchs and Wernher der Gartenære's Helmbrecht / Classen, Albrecht -- Chapter 7. The Function of Projected Pain: The Poetry of François Villon and the Gift of Self / Gough, John -- Chapter 8. Retribution in Gamelyn: A Case in the Courts / Jost, Jean E. -- Chapter 9. Contra Signum Nostrum: The Symbolism of Lèse-majesté under Philip VI Valois / Komornicka, Jolanta N. -- Chapter 10. Women as Victims and Criminals in the Siete Partidas / Scarborough, Connie L. -- Chapter 11. Theft in Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor / Ruiz, Maria Cecilia -- Chapter 12. Competition for the Prisoner's Body: Wardens and Jailers in Fourteenth-Century Southern France / Turning, Patricia -- Chapter 13. The Host on the Doorstep: Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders in an Alleged Host Desecration in Fourteenth-Century Austria / Wiedl, Birgit -- Chapter 14. Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?: Chaucer's Physician's Tale and the Worlds of Judgment / Pigg, Daniel F. -- Chapter 15. Deviancy in the Late Middle Ages: The Crimes and Punishment of Gilles de Rais / Ross, Lia B. -- Chapter 16. The Celebratory Conical Hat in La Celestina / Beusterien, John -- Chapter 17. Equal Opportunity Vengeance in the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre / Llewellyn, Kathleen M. -- Chapter 18. Crimes et Châtiments d'Exception en France au Temps des Guerres de Religion: l'Utopie Judiciaire des Commentaires de Monluc (livres V à VII) / Lombart, Nicolas -- Chapter 19. The Amsterdam Spinhuis and the "Art" of Correction / Moffitt Peacock, Martha -- Chapter 20. Pimping for the Fairy Queen: Some Cozeners in Shakespeare's England / Willard, Thomas -- Chapter 21. Réflexions de Montaigne sur le châtiment des criminels / Bjaï, Denis -- Chapter 22. The Ultimate Crime: Cannibalism in Early Modern Minds and Imaginations / Coudert, Allison P. -- Chapter 23. Punishment Post Mortem - The Crime of Suicide in Early Modern Austria and Sweden / Luef, Evelyne -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgment and Gratitude |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786436603321 |
Berlin ; ; Boston, : de Gruyter, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Crime and punishment in the Middle Ages and early modern age [[electronic resource] ] : mental-historical investigations of basic human problems and social responses / / edited by Albrecht Classen, Connie Scarborough |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston, : de Gruyter, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (612 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933556 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ClassenAlbrecht
ScarboroughConnie L. <1954-> |
Collana | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture |
Soggetto topico |
Crime in literature
Literature, Medieval - History and criticism European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism Punishment in literature Deviant behavior in literature Justice in literature Social control in literature Social norms in literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
Crime
Medieval Culture Medieval Law Medieval Literature Punishment |
ISBN |
1-283-85738-3
3-11-029458-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction. Crime, Transgression, and Deviancy: Behaviors that Defines Us All / Classen, Albrecht / Scarborough, Connie -- Chapter 1. Le 'crime épique' et sa punition: quelques exemples (XIIe-XIIIe siècles) / Ribémont, Bernard -- Chapter 2. "I know how to be a whore and thief" The poet's reputation: troubadours - ancestors of poètes maudits? / Niiranen, Susanna -- Chapter 3. The Law - Letter and Spirit: Language, Transgression and Justice In Three Medieval German Epic Poems / Clason, Christopher R. -- Chapter 4. Crime, Punishment and the Hybrid in Medieval French Romance: Robert the Devil and Geoffrey Big Tooth / Hahn, Stacey -- Chapter 5. Judicium Dei, vulgaris popularisque sensus: Survival of Customary Justice and Resistance to its Displacement by the "New" Ordines iudiciorum as Evidenced by Francophonic Literature of the High Middle Ages / Taylor, Scott L. -- Chapter 6. Crime and Violence in the Middle Ages: The Cases of Heinrich der Glichezare's Reinhard Fuchs and Wernher der Gartenære's Helmbrecht / Classen, Albrecht -- Chapter 7. The Function of Projected Pain: The Poetry of François Villon and the Gift of Self / Gough, John -- Chapter 8. Retribution in Gamelyn: A Case in the Courts / Jost, Jean E. -- Chapter 9. Contra Signum Nostrum: The Symbolism of Lèse-majesté under Philip VI Valois / Komornicka, Jolanta N. -- Chapter 10. Women as Victims and Criminals in the Siete Partidas / Scarborough, Connie L. -- Chapter 11. Theft in Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor / Ruiz, Maria Cecilia -- Chapter 12. Competition for the Prisoner's Body: Wardens and Jailers in Fourteenth-Century Southern France / Turning, Patricia -- Chapter 13. The Host on the Doorstep: Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders in an Alleged Host Desecration in Fourteenth-Century Austria / Wiedl, Birgit -- Chapter 14. Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?: Chaucer's Physician's Tale and the Worlds of Judgment / Pigg, Daniel F. -- Chapter 15. Deviancy in the Late Middle Ages: The Crimes and Punishment of Gilles de Rais / Ross, Lia B. -- Chapter 16. The Celebratory Conical Hat in La Celestina / Beusterien, John -- Chapter 17. Equal Opportunity Vengeance in the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre / Llewellyn, Kathleen M. -- Chapter 18. Crimes et Châtiments d'Exception en France au Temps des Guerres de Religion: l'Utopie Judiciaire des Commentaires de Monluc (livres V à VII) / Lombart, Nicolas -- Chapter 19. The Amsterdam Spinhuis and the "Art" of Correction / Moffitt Peacock, Martha -- Chapter 20. Pimping for the Fairy Queen: Some Cozeners in Shakespeare's England / Willard, Thomas -- Chapter 21. Réflexions de Montaigne sur le châtiment des criminels / Bjaï, Denis -- Chapter 22. The Ultimate Crime: Cannibalism in Early Modern Minds and Imaginations / Coudert, Allison P. -- Chapter 23. Punishment Post Mortem - The Crime of Suicide in Early Modern Austria and Sweden / Luef, Evelyne -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgment and Gratitude |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820547603321 |
Berlin ; ; Boston, : de Gruyter, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Feminism, literature and rape narratives : violence and violation / / edited by Sorcha Gunne and Zoe Brigley Thompson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
Disciplina |
809.933556
809/.933556 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BrigleyZoe
GunneSorcha <1980-> |
Collana | Routledge research in postcolonial literatures |
Soggetto topico |
Feminist literature - History and criticism
Rape in literature Violence in literature Women in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-54754-6
9786613859990 1-136-61585-7 0-203-47973-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Feminism, Literatureand Rape Narratives; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Feminism without Borders: The Potentials and Pitfalls of Retheorizing Rape; 2. Rape by Proxy in Contemporary Caribbean Women's Fiction; 3. Sabotaging the Language of Pride: Toni Morrison's Representations of Rape; 4. Revising Chicana Womanhood: Gender Violence in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street; 5. Between 'Awra and Arab Feminism: Sexual Violence and Representational Crisis in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero
6. Writing Rape: The Politics of Resistance in Yvonne Vera's Novels7. II/legitimacy: Sexual Violence, Mental Health and Resisting Abjection in Camilla Gibb's Mouthing the Words and Elizabeth Ruth's Ten Good Seconds of Silence; 8. Testimony and Silence: Sexual Violence and the Holocaust; 9. 'Mum Is the Word': Gender Violence, Displacement and the Refugee Camp in Yasmin Ladha's Documentary-Fiction; 10. Double Violation? (Not) Talking about Sexual Violence in Contemporary South Asia 11. Questioning Truth and Reconciliation: Writing Rape in Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit and Kagiso Lesego Molope's Dancing in the Dust12. Signifying Rape: Problems of Representing Sexual Violence on Stage; 13. The Wound and the Mask: Rape, Recovery and Poetry in Pascale Petit's The Wounded Deer: Fourteen Poems after Frida Kahlo; 14. Rape, Power, Realism and the Fantastic on Television; List of Editors and Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465227103321 |
New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Feminism, literature and rape narratives : violence and violation / / edited by Sorcha Gunne and Zoe Brigley Thompson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
Disciplina |
809.933556
809/.933556 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BrigleyZoe
GunneSorcha <1980-> |
Collana | Routledge research in postcolonial literatures |
Soggetto topico |
Feminist literature - History and criticism
Rape in literature Violence in literature Women in literature |
ISBN |
1-136-61584-9
1-283-54754-6 9786613859990 1-136-61585-7 0-203-47973-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Feminism, Literatureand Rape Narratives; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Feminism without Borders: The Potentials and Pitfalls of Retheorizing Rape; 2. Rape by Proxy in Contemporary Caribbean Women's Fiction; 3. Sabotaging the Language of Pride: Toni Morrison's Representations of Rape; 4. Revising Chicana Womanhood: Gender Violence in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street; 5. Between 'Awra and Arab Feminism: Sexual Violence and Representational Crisis in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero
6. Writing Rape: The Politics of Resistance in Yvonne Vera's Novels7. II/legitimacy: Sexual Violence, Mental Health and Resisting Abjection in Camilla Gibb's Mouthing the Words and Elizabeth Ruth's Ten Good Seconds of Silence; 8. Testimony and Silence: Sexual Violence and the Holocaust; 9. 'Mum Is the Word': Gender Violence, Displacement and the Refugee Camp in Yasmin Ladha's Documentary-Fiction; 10. Double Violation? (Not) Talking about Sexual Violence in Contemporary South Asia 11. Questioning Truth and Reconciliation: Writing Rape in Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit and Kagiso Lesego Molope's Dancing in the Dust12. Signifying Rape: Problems of Representing Sexual Violence on Stage; 13. The Wound and the Mask: Rape, Recovery and Poetry in Pascale Petit's The Wounded Deer: Fourteen Poems after Frida Kahlo; 14. Rape, Power, Realism and the Fantastic on Television; List of Editors and Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791920803321 |
New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Feminism, literature and rape narratives : violence and violation / / edited by Sorcha Gunne and Zoe Brigley Thompson |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
Disciplina |
809.933556
809/.933556 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BrigleyZoe
GunneSorcha <1980-> |
Collana | Routledge research in postcolonial literatures |
Soggetto topico |
Feminist literature - History and criticism
Rape in literature Violence in literature Women in literature |
ISBN |
1-136-61584-9
1-283-54754-6 9786613859990 1-136-61585-7 0-203-47973-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Feminism, Literatureand Rape Narratives; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Feminism without Borders: The Potentials and Pitfalls of Retheorizing Rape; 2. Rape by Proxy in Contemporary Caribbean Women's Fiction; 3. Sabotaging the Language of Pride: Toni Morrison's Representations of Rape; 4. Revising Chicana Womanhood: Gender Violence in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street; 5. Between 'Awra and Arab Feminism: Sexual Violence and Representational Crisis in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero
6. Writing Rape: The Politics of Resistance in Yvonne Vera's Novels7. II/legitimacy: Sexual Violence, Mental Health and Resisting Abjection in Camilla Gibb's Mouthing the Words and Elizabeth Ruth's Ten Good Seconds of Silence; 8. Testimony and Silence: Sexual Violence and the Holocaust; 9. 'Mum Is the Word': Gender Violence, Displacement and the Refugee Camp in Yasmin Ladha's Documentary-Fiction; 10. Double Violation? (Not) Talking about Sexual Violence in Contemporary South Asia 11. Questioning Truth and Reconciliation: Writing Rape in Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit and Kagiso Lesego Molope's Dancing in the Dust12. Signifying Rape: Problems of Representing Sexual Violence on Stage; 13. The Wound and the Mask: Rape, Recovery and Poetry in Pascale Petit's The Wounded Deer: Fourteen Poems after Frida Kahlo; 14. Rape, Power, Realism and the Fantastic on Television; List of Editors and Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818803403321 |
New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The pleasures of crime [[electronic resource] ] : reading modern French crime fiction / / David Platten |
Autore | Platten David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Rodopi, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933556 |
Collana | Chiasma |
Soggetto topico |
Detective and mystery stories, French - History and criticism
Crime in literature - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-49709-2
9786613592323 94-012-0717-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Forbidden Fruit -- ‘Black’ Markets: the Emergence of the Genre in France -- Profusion and Profundity: Simenon and the Paradox of the Crime Novel -- Framing the Noir: The Individual in Society -- The Aesthetics of Commitment -- The Scene of the Crime -- Shades of Noir: Modern and Contemporary French Crime Fiction -- ‘Une Nouvelle Nouvelle Classe d’Âge: Youth Culture and the Roman Noir -- Mapping Minds and Figuring Plots: the Novels of Fred Vargas -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462559603321 |
Platten David | ||
New York, : Rodopi, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The pleasures of crime [[electronic resource] ] : reading modern French crime fiction / / David Platten |
Autore | Platten David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Rodopi, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933556 |
Collana | Chiasma |
Soggetto topico |
Detective and mystery stories, French - History and criticism
Crime in literature - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-280-49709-2
9786613592323 94-012-0717-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Forbidden Fruit -- ‘Black’ Markets: the Emergence of the Genre in France -- Profusion and Profundity: Simenon and the Paradox of the Crime Novel -- Framing the Noir: The Individual in Society -- The Aesthetics of Commitment -- The Scene of the Crime -- Shades of Noir: Modern and Contemporary French Crime Fiction -- ‘Une Nouvelle Nouvelle Classe d’Âge: Youth Culture and the Roman Noir -- Mapping Minds and Figuring Plots: the Novels of Fred Vargas -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790400103321 |
Platten David | ||
New York, : Rodopi, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The pleasures of crime [[electronic resource] ] : reading modern French crime fiction / / David Platten |
Autore | Platten David |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Rodopi, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933556 |
Collana | Chiasma |
Soggetto topico |
Detective and mystery stories, French - History and criticism
Crime in literature - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-280-49709-2
9786613592323 94-012-0717-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Forbidden Fruit -- ‘Black’ Markets: the Emergence of the Genre in France -- Profusion and Profundity: Simenon and the Paradox of the Crime Novel -- Framing the Noir: The Individual in Society -- The Aesthetics of Commitment -- The Scene of the Crime -- Shades of Noir: Modern and Contemporary French Crime Fiction -- ‘Une Nouvelle Nouvelle Classe d’Âge: Youth Culture and the Roman Noir -- Mapping Minds and Figuring Plots: the Novels of Fred Vargas -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823369603321 |
Platten David | ||
New York, : Rodopi, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World / Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, Marion Gymnich, Klaus P. Schneider |
Autore | Schmidt-Haberkamp Barbara |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; Boston : , : Brill, , 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (302 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933556 |
Collana | Cross/Cultures |
Soggetto topico | Literature: history & criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Conference papers and proceedings. |
Soggetto non controllato |
Literature & literary studies
Literature: history & criticism |
ISBN | 90-04-46639-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Representing Poverty and Precarityin a Postcolonial World: An Introduction -- Overview -- Works Cited -- Part 1 Media, Performance, Genres -- Chapter 1 Poverty, (Neo)orientalism and the Cinematic Re-presentation of 'Dark India' -- 1 Orientalism, Exoticism and India -- 2 'Dark India' Narratives -- 3 The Slum and the Exotica of Poverty -- 4 Hindi Cinema and the Aesthetic of Poverty -- 5 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 "Performing with What Little They Have": Street Theatre in the Slums of Ahmedabad -- 1 Introduction -- 2 History of the Community -- 3 Budhan Theatre: Actors, Aims, Modes of Performance -- 4 Budhan's Plays -- 5 Adapting European Plays -- 6 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 Overcoming the 'Crisis of Nonrelation' through Formal Innovation: Aboriginal Short Story Cycles -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Promise of Relations - Aboriginal Short Story Cycles and Reading Practices -- 3 Swallow the Air - Overcoming the 'Crisis of Nonrelation' -- 4 Defying Reader Expectations -- 5 Conclusion - The Potential of Relationality -- Works Cited -- Part 2 Intersectional Approaches -- Chapter 4 Precarious Lives in Tony Birch's Common People (2017) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Agency and Resilience -- 3 The Charity of Others -- 4 The Precarity of Family Life -- 5 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 Diasporic Female Precarity and Agency in Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways -- 1 Conceptualizing Female Precarity and Agency -- 2 The Girl from God -- 3 Gendered Economic Precarity -- 4 Religious Faith, Honour and Moral Responsibility -- Acknowledgements -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 Narrating the 'Black Male Underclass': The Ethics and Aesthetics of Coming into Representation -- 1 Deconstructing the 'Violent Avenger' in East of Acre Lane.
2 Confronting Enemies outside and within the Community -- 3 Empathising with the 'Noble Savage' in Pigeon English -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7 Breaking the Cycle of Heathcliff: Precarious Subjects from Emily Brontë to Caryl Phillips -- 1 Brontë's Lost Child -- 2 The Lost Child Writing back -- 3 Being Outcast - Between Nature and Nurture -- 4 The Precarity of Orphanhood and Familial Bonds -- 5 Cycles of Loss -- 6 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part 3 (Publication) Politics and Precarity -- Chapter 8 Voices of Ugandan Women Writers: Positioning femrite Since 2006 -- 1 femrite within the Ugandan Literary Landscape: The First Ten Years -- 2 femrite: Challenges and Achievements Since 2006 -- 3 Recent Developments in femrite -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9 Poverty, Precarity and the Ethics of Representing Africa -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Africa and the Paradox of the Migration Impulse -- 3 African Literary Production and the "Extroverted" Narrative -- 4 Rethinking the Role of African Writers -- 5 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part 4 Environmental Precarity -- Chapter 10 Sovereignty at the Margins: The Oceanic Future of the Subaltern -- 1 The Oceanic Turn -- 2 The Muddy Texture of Precarity -- 3 Sovereignty at the Margins -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11 Plantation and Planet: Environmental Precarity in Anglophone Caribbean World Writing -- 1 Introduction -- 2 World Writing as Ethical Imperative -- 3 Poet(h)ic Visions of the World -- 4 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part 5 Representing Refugees and Immigrants -- Chapter 12 Narrative Zones of Refuge in The Lost Boy by Aher Arop Bol and A Man of Good Hope by Jonny Steinberg -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Home and Unhoming -- 3 Aher Arop Bol, The Lost Boy (2009) - A Refugee Memoir -- 4 Jonny Steinberg, A Man of Good Hope (2014) - A Mediated Narrative -- 5 Living between Zones -- 6 Refiguring the Refugee -- 7 Conclusion -- Works Cited. Chapter 13 "Bringing the Wisdom of Wall Street to Limbe": Precarity and (American) Dream Narratives in Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers -- 1 American Dream Discourse and Precarity in the Novel -- 2 Re-living the Dream: Behold the Dreamer's Use of Dream Tropes -- 3 Translocating the American Dream -- Works Cited -- Chapter 14 The Scenario of (Im-)Migrants as Scroungers and/or Parasites in British Media Discourses -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data and Methodology -- 3 Immigrants as 'Parasites' -- 3.1 Immigrants as 'Parasites' in the Have Your Say Discussion Forum -- 3.2 Immigrants as 'Parasites' in the Press -- 3.3 Immigrants as 'Parasites' in the Blogosphere -- 4 Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Chapter 15 Narrating Precarious Lives: Refugee Tales, African Titanics, and The Year of the Runaways -- 1 Refugees and Narrative Representation -- 2 Refugee Writing, Precarity and Ethical Engagement -- 3 Mediated, Collective Story-Telling in Refugee Tales -- 4 The Poetics of Risk: African Titanics -- 5 Migration and Precarity in The Year of the Runaways -- 6 Conclusion: Precarious Lives and Frameworks of Perception -- Works Cited -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910558096803321 |
Schmidt-Haberkamp Barbara | ||
Leiden; Boston : , : Brill, , 2022 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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