Scandinavian Crime Fiction

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

Av Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, UK) Stougaard-Nielsen, Dr Jakob (University College London, Katy Shaw

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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 Sjöwall and Wahlöö’s Novel of a Crime, Gunnar Staalesen’s Varg Veum series, Peter Høeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, Henning Mankell's Wallander books, Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and TV series such as The Killing. With its focus on the function of crime fiction in both reflecting and shaping the late-modern Scandinavian welfare societies, this book is essential for readers, viewers and fans of contemporary crime writing.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-01-12
Mått214 x 138 x 16 mm
Vikt360 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Serie21st Century Genre Fiction
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781472527745

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Introduction1. Scandinavian crime fiction and the welfare state2. Welfare crime: Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Novel of a Crime3. The hardboiled social worker: Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum4. Crime fiction in an age of crisis: Henning Mankell's Faceless Killers and Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo5. Landscape and memory in the criminal periphery6. Criminal peripheries: Peter Høeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for snow and Kerstin Ekman's Blackwater7. Investigating the family in the welfare stateConclusionBibliographyIndex

[In] this exemplary study ... [themes] are treated with an analytical precision that both anatomises the key elements for those new to the genre and finds myriad new insights for old hands like myself. Scandinavian Crime Fiction becomes, at a stroke, a key work in the ongoing analysis of Nesbo, Larsson, Fossum, Mankell & Co., crammed with acute observation from a man whose knowledge and understanding of the genre is nonpareil.