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Author:   Carolina Miranda ,  Jean Anderson ,  Barbara Pezzotti ,  Tim Brassell
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.385kg
ISBN:  

9781137483683

ISBN 10:   1137483687
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   27 August 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction PART I: THE SUM OF ITS PARTS: WHAT MAKES A SERIES? 2. Stephen Burroughs, Serial Offender; Jon Blandford 3. The Myth of the Gentleman Burglar: Models of Serialization and Temporality in Early Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction; Federico Pagello 4. '' ''More than the Sum of its Parts: Borges, Bioy Casares and the Phenomenon of the Séptimo Círculo Collection '' ''; Carolina Miranda 5. Serializing Sullivan: Vian/Sullivan, the Série noire, and the effet de collection; Clara Sitbon, Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan and Alistair Rolls 6. Armed and Dangerous: Le Poulpe and the Formalization of French Noir; Pim Higginson 7. Acts of Violence: The World War II Veteran Private-Eye Movie as an Ideological Crime Series; Nick Heffernan 8. The Structure of the Whole: James Ellroy '' ''s LA Quartet Series; Steven Powell PART II: AS TIME GOES BY: PROGRESSING THE SERIES 9. The Maturity of Lord Peter Wimsey and Authorial Innovation Within a Series; Brittain Bright 10. Series Fiction and the Challenge of Ideology: the Feminism of Sara Paretsky; Sabine Vanacker 11. From Conflicted Mother to Lone Avenger: Transformations of the Woman Journalist Detective in Liza Marklund '' ''s Crime Series; Kerstin Bergman 12. It '' ''s All One Book. It '' ''s All One World: George Pelecanos '' ''s Washington DC; Eduardo Obradó 13. Serializing Evil: David Peace and the Formulæ of Crime Fiction; Nicoletta Vallorani 14. The Flavour of the Street: The Factory Series by Derek Raymond; Anna Pasolini 15. Andrea Camilleri '' ''s Imaginary Vigàta, Between Formula and Innovation; Barbara Pezzotti PART III: TRANPOSITION, IMITATION, INNOVATION 16. Sherlock Holmes in Hollywood: Film Series, Genre and Masculinities; Maysaa Jaber 17. Murder, Mayhem and Clever Branding: the Stunning Success of J.B. Fletcher; Rachel Franks and Donna Lee Brien 18. From flâneur to traceur?: Léo Malet and Cara Black Construct the PI '' ''s Paris; JeanAnderson 19. The City Lives in Me: Connectivity and Embeddedness in Australia '' ''s Peter Temple and Shane Maloney; Carolyn Beasley 20. '' ''She '' ''s pretty hardboiled, huh? '' '' Rewriting the Classic Detective in Veronica Mars; Taryn Norman 21. '' ''Exspecta Inexspectata '' '': The Rise of the Supernatural in Hybrid; Detective Series for Young Readers; Lucy Andrew Bibliography Index                                                                                   

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Jean Anderson, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Lucy Andrew, Cardiff University, UK Carolyn Beasley, Swinburne University of Technology, in Victoria Kerstin Bergman, Lund University, Sweden Jon Blandford, Bellarmine University, USA Donna Lee Brien, Central Queensland University, Australia Brittain Bright, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Rachel Franks, The University of Newcastle, Australia Nick Heffernan, University of Nottingham, UK Pim Higginson, Bryn Mawr College, USA Maysaa Jaber, University of Baghdad, Iraq Carolina Miranda, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand Taryn Norman, University of Tennessee, USA Eduardo Obradó, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain Federico Pagello, Queen's University Belfast, UK Anna Pasolini, University of Milan, Italy Barbara Pezzotti, Australasian Centre for Italian Studies, Australia Steven Powell, Independent Scholar, UK Alistair Rolls, University of Newcastle, Australia Clara Sitbon, University of Newcastle, Australia Nicoletta Vallorani, University of Milan, Italy Sabine Vanacker, University of Hull, UK Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan, University of Newcastle, Australia

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