The Routledge Companion To Crime Fiction Janice Allan Jesper Gulddal by Janice Allan, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King, Andrew Pepper 9781138320352, 1138320358 instant download after payment.

<p>The <i>Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction </i>is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across forty-five original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as ground-breaking mappings of emerging themes and trends.</p> <p></p> <p>The volume is divided into three parts. Part I, <i>Approaches,</i> rearticulates the key theoretical questions posed by the crime genre. Part II, <i>Devices,</i> examines the textual characteristics of the genre. Part III, <em>Interfaces</em>, investigates the complex ways in which crime fiction engages with the defining issues of its context – from policing and forensic science through war, migration and narcotics to digital media and the environment. </p> <p></p> <p>Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world, this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars of crime fiction. </p> <p></p>