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Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction

2014-01-16 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2014-01-16
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Book Synopsis Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction by : Barbara Pezzotti

Download or read book Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction written by Barbara Pezzotti. This book was released on 2014-01-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprehensively covers the history of Italian crime fiction from its origins to the present. Using the concept of "moral rebellion," the author examines the ways in which Italian crime fiction has articulated the country's social and political changes. The book concentrates on such writers as Augusto de Angelis (1888-1944), Giorgio Scerbanenco (1911-1969), Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989), Andrea Camilleri (b. 1925), Loriano Macchiavelli (b. 1934), Massimo Carlotto (b. 1956), and Marcello Fois (b. 1960). Through the analysis of writers belonging to differing crucial periods of Italy's history, this work reveals the many ways in which authors exploit the genre to reflect social transformation and dysfunction.

The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

2012 History
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Release : 2012
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction by : Barbara Pezzotti

Download or read book The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction written by Barbara Pezzotti. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the relationship between detective fiction and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last 20 years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country.

Italian Crime Fiction

2011-10-15 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2011-10-15
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Book Synopsis Italian Crime Fiction by : Giulana Pieri

Download or read book Italian Crime Fiction written by Giulana Pieri. This book was released on 2011-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is the first study in the English language to focus specifically on Italian crime fiction, weaving together a historical perspective and a thematic approach, with a particular focus on the representation of space, especially city space, gender, and the tradition of impegno, the social and political engagement which characterised the Italian cultural and literary scene in the postwar period. The 8 chapters in this volume explore the distinctive features of the Italian tradition from the 1930s to the present, by focusing on a wide range of detective and crime novels by selected Italian writers, some of whom have an established international reputation, such as C. E. Gadda, L. Sciascia and U. Eco, whilst others may be relatively unknown, such as the new generation of crime writers of the Bologna school and Italian women crime writers. Each chapter examines a specific period, movement or group of writers, as well as engaging with broader debates over the contribution crime fiction makes more generally to contemporary Italian and European culture. The editor and contributors of this volume argue strongly in favour of reinstating crime fiction within the canon of Italian modern literature by presenting this once marginalised literary genre as a body of works which, when viewed without the artificial distinction between high and popular literature, shows a remarkable insight into Italy’s postwar history, tracking its societal and political troubles and changes as well as often also engaging with metaphorical and philosophical notions of right or wrong, evil, redemption, and the search of the self.

Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series

2016-09-11 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2016-09-11
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Book Synopsis Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series by : Barbara Pezzotti

Download or read book Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series written by Barbara Pezzotti. This book was released on 2016-09-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first monograph in English that comprehensively examines the ways in which Italian historical crime novels, TV series, and films have become a means to intervene in the social and political changes of the country. This study explores the ways in which fictional representations of the past mirror contemporaneous anxieties within Italian society in the work of writers such as Leonardo Sciascia, Andrea Camilleri, Carlo Lucarelli, Francesco Guccini, Loriano Macchiavelli, Marcello Fois, Maurizio De Giovanni, and Giancarlo De Cataldo; film directors such as Elio Petri, Pietro Germi, Michele Placido, and Damiano Damiani; and TV series such as the “Commissario De Luca” series, the “Commissario Nardone” series, and “Romanzo criminale–The series.” Providing the most wide-ranging examination of this sub-genre in Italy, Barbara Pezzotti places works set in the Risorgimento, WWII, and the Years of Lead in the larger social and political context of contemporary Italy.

The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

2012-09-14 Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction by : Barbara Pezzotti

Download or read book The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction written by Barbara Pezzotti. This book was released on 2012-09-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last 20 years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. Nowadays there is a general acknowledgment of the importance of place in Italian crime novels. However, apart from a limited scholarship on single cities, the genre has never been systematically studied in a way that so comprehensively spans Italian national boundaries. The originality of this volume also lies in the fact that the author have not limited her investigation to a series of cities, but rather she has considered the different forms of (social) landscape in which Italian crime novels are set. Through the analysis of the way in which cities, the "urban sprawl," and islands are represented in the serial novels of 11 of the most important contemporary crime writers in Italy of the 1990s, Pezzotti articulates the different ways in which individual authors appropriate the structures and tropes of the genre to reflect the social transformations and dysfunctions of contemporary Italy. In so doing, this volume also makes a case for the genre as an instrument of social critique and analysis of a still elusive Italian national identity, thus bringing further evidence in support of the thesis that in Italy detective fiction has come to play the role of the new "social novel."

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