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Product Description: The Intellectual as a Detective: From Leonardo Sciascia to Roberto Saviano offers a fresh perspective on both Italian crime fiction and the role of the intellectual in Italian society. By analyzing the characterization of men of culture as investigators, this book addresses their social commitment in a period that goes from the Sixties to today...read more
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9781433125188 | Bilingual edition (Peter Lang Pub Inc, October 23, 2014), cover price $81.95 | About this edition: The Intellectual as a Detective: From Leonardo Sciascia to Roberto Saviano offers a fresh perspective on both Italian crime fiction and the role of the intellectual in Italian society.
Product Description: These new essays comprise a critical analysis of present-day crime fiction and nonfiction works set in Italy (all of which are available in English). The writers discussed range from Donna Leon and Michael Dibdin to Leonardo Sciascia and Andrea Camilleri...read more
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9780786458646 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, February 27, 2014, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: These new essays comprise a critical analysis of present-day crime fiction and nonfiction works set in Italy (all of which are available in English).
Product Description: 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...read more
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9780786476527 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, January 2, 2014, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This book comprehensively covers the history of Italian crime fiction from its origins to the present.
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9780786446704 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, April 3, 2012, cover price $39.95
Product Description: The first extended analysis of the relationship between Italian criminology and crime fiction in English, Methods of Murder examines works by major authors both popular, such as Gianrico Carofiglio, and canonical, such as Carlo Emilio Gadda...read more
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9781442643888 | Univ of Toronto Pr, March 13, 2012, cover price $78.00 | About this edition: The first extended analysis of the relationship between Italian criminology and crime fiction in English, Methods of Murder examines works by major authors both popular, such as Gianrico Carofiglio, and canonical, such as Carlo Emilio Gadda.
Product Description: The crime genre entered Italy in the late nineteenth century, and if initially Italian authors followed models developed abroad principally in the United States, England and France a uniquely Italian brand began to emerge soon. Il giallo, as the crime genre has been known in Italy since the 1930s, proved to be the ideal instrument to confront pressing and often uncomfortable issues which were pertinent to the Italian context: it became a useful tool to restore, symbolically at least, the truth and justice that were, and still are, perceived by a large part of the Italian reading public to be systematically denied in reality...read more
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9781443824200 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, November 1, 2010, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: The crime genre entered Italy in the late nineteenth century, and if initially Italian authors followed models developed abroad principally in the United States, England and France a uniquely Italian brand began to emerge soon.
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9780373610846, titled "Fastburn" | Harlequin Books, December 1, 1985, cover price $2.50 | also contains Fastburn
Product Description: Detective fiction is a universally popular genre; stories about the investigation of a crime by a detective are published all over the world and in hundreds of languages. Detective fiction provides more than entertainment, however; it often has a great deal to say about crime and punishment, justice and injustice, testimony and judgment...read more
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9780802091147 | Univ of Toronto Pr, August 31, 2006, cover price $63.00 | About this edition: Detective fiction is a universally popular genre; stories about the investigation of a crime by a detective are published all over the world and in hundreds of languages.
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9780373610846 | Harlequin Books, December 1, 1985, cover price $2.50 | also contains Uncertain Justice: Crimes and Retribution in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction
Product Description: ÂTaniâs dissertation is the most stunÂningly original and intelligent I have encountered in 25 years of teaching,â wrote the late novelist John Gardner. Taniâs argument says that the ÂmysÂtery story as written by Hammett and others and touted by the French existenÂtialists led to a new kind of novel and the old-style mystery, as written by, for exÂample, Agatha Christie, seemed a literÂary dead endÂa conservative if not reacÂtionary game...read more
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9780809311484 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, May 1, 1984, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: ÂTaniâs dissertation is the most stunÂningly original and intelligent I have encountered in 25 years of teaching,â wrote the late novelist John Gardner.
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