Barbara Pezzotti

The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

A Bloody Journey

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781611475524
• ISBN-10: 161147552X
• Artikelnr.: 35967789

Autorenporträt

Barbara Pezzotti teaches Italian language and culture in various tertiary institutions in New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Epigraphs Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Giallo
and the City 1 Milan, the city of crime Piero Colaprico and Pietro
Valpreda's 'Dynamic' Milan Andrea G. Pinketts' Grotesque Milan Sandrone
Dazieri and a Manichean Image of the City 2 Turin, between History and News
Bruno Ventavoli and the 'Savoy Kasbah' Piero Soria and the Renewal of
Turin's Pride 3 Naples, the sulphurous city Siviero's Naples as the
Dystopian City of the Future 4 Palermo, beauty and the Mafia Piazzese and a
Schizophrenic Palermo Part II: Giallo and urban sprawl 5 Bologna and the
Via Emilia Carlo Lucarelli and a Dilating Bologna 6 Italy's North-east, the
Corroded Engine of Italy Massimo Carlotto and the Alligator series Part
III: Giallo and the Island 7 Sicily between Old and New Andrea Camilleri
and Vigàta, the Imaginary 'Island' 8 Sardinia, the Motherland Marcello Fois
and his Contemporary Trilogy Conclusion Part IV: Interviews Bibliography  
Index About the Author