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Author: Lynn M. Kutch (Customer) ,
Todd Herzog (Customer) ,
Angelika Baier (Contributor) ,
Anita McChesney (Contributor)
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint: Camden House Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.420kg
ISBN: 9781640140264
ISBN 10: 1640140263
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 March 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
[C]omprehensive and interesting analysis. . . . For readers in Germany and Austria as well the essays in Tatort Germany should be of great interest [because it allows one] to learn how the German-language detective novel is perceived in the US. I recommend Tatort Germany as an enrichment of any collection of secondary literature on the genre. CRIMEMAG This volume offers a rich insight into contemporary German-language crime fiction and its emerging trends. . . . [T]he extensive analysis of currently untranslated texts--with quotations in English--performs an important function, too, especially as it serves to encourage more translations of German-language crime novels in future. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT The volume's focus on contemporary trends in German-language crime fiction offers a welcome corrective to [the widespread lack of knowledge of German-language crime fiction in the English-speaking world], as does its exploration of the peculiarly German twists of the genre in its three sections on place, history, and identity. . . . [R]ich and diverse . . . highly recommended for researchers of genre fiction, whether working in German Studies or beyond: quotations are provided in German and English, and an extensive bibliography[y] direct[s] readers to resources in both languages. . . . MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW [Katharina Hall] [C]onvincingly make[s] a case for the serious scholarly study of your favorite guilty pleasure: those prolific German crime novels that are, in their own idiosyncratic way, every bit as good as their English and Swedish counterparts. By placing twenty-first century German crime fiction into its historical, international and theoretical contexts, Kutch and Herzog-and the volume's contributors-provide a fascinating broader explanation of a current literary phenomenon. WOMEN IN GERMAN NEWSLETTER [Rob McFarland] That crime fiction written in German represents a curious case has been established before, but a more wide-reaching case can indeed be made for contemporary German-language crime fiction, and the editors and contributors of this volume succeed in doing so quite admirably. JOURNAL OF AUSTRIAN STUDIES [Thomas Kniesche]
(C)omprehensive and interesting analysis. . . . For readers in Germany and Austria as well the essays in Tatort Germany should be of great interest (because it allows one) to learn how the German-language detective novel is perceived in the US. I recommend Tatort Germany as an enrichment of any collection of secondary literature on the genre. CRIMEMAG This volume offers a rich insight into contemporary German-language crime fiction and its emerging trends. . . . (T)he extensive analysis of currently untranslated texts--with quotations in English--performs an important function, too, especially as it serves to encourage more translations of German-language crime novels in future. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (Katharina Hall) The volume's focus on contemporary trends in German-language crime fiction offers a welcome corrective to (the widespread lack of knowledge of German-language crime fiction in the English-speaking world), as does its exploration of the peculiarly German twists of the genre in its three sections on place, history, and identity. . . . (R)ich and diverse . . . highly recommended for researchers of genre fiction, whether working in German Studies or beyond: quotations are provided in German and English, and an extensive bibliography(y) direct(s) readers to resources in both languages. . . . Tatort Germany offers a rich insight into contemporary German-language crime fiction and the genre's emerging trends. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW (Katharina Hall) (C)onvincingly make(s) a case for the serious scholarly study of your favorite guilty pleasure: those prolific German crime novels that are, in their own idiosyncratic way, every bit as good as their English and Swedish counterparts. By placing twenty-first century German crime fiction into its historical, international and theoretical contexts, Kutch and Herzog-and the volume's contributors-provide a fascinating broader explanation of a current literary phenomenon. WOMEN IN GERMAN NEWSLETTER (Rob McFarland) That crime fiction written in German represents a curious case has been established before, but a more wide-reaching case can indeed be made for contemporary German-language crime fiction, and the editors and contributors of this volume succeed in doing so quite admirably. JOURNAL OF AUSTRIAN STUDIES (Thomas Kniesche)
(C)omprehensive and interesting analysis. . . . For readers in Germany and Austria as well the essays in Tatort Germany should be of great interest (because it allows one) to learn how the German-language detective novel is perceived in the US. I recommend Tatort Germany as an enrichment of any collection of secondary literature on the genre. CRIMEMAG This volume offers a rich insight into contemporary German-language crime fiction and its emerging trends. . . . (T)he extensive analysis of currently untranslated texts--with quotations in English--performs an important function, too, especially as it serves to encourage more translations of German-language crime novels in future. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT The volume's focus on contemporary trends in German-language crime fiction offers a welcome corrective to (the widespread lack of knowledge of German-language crime fiction in the English-speaking world), as does its exploration of the peculiarly German twists of the genre in its three sections on place, history, and identity. . . . (R)ich and diverse . . . highly recommended for researchers of genre fiction, whether working in German Studies or beyond: quotations are provided in German and English, and an extensive bibliography(y) direct(s) readers to resources in both languages. . . . MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW (Katharina Hall) (C)onvincingly make(s) a case for the serious scholarly study of your favorite guilty pleasure: those prolific German crime novels that are, in their own idiosyncratic way, every bit as good as their English and Swedish counterparts. By placing twenty-first century German crime fiction into its historical, international and theoretical contexts, Kutch and Herzog-and the volume's contributors-provide a fascinating broader explanation of a current literary phenomenon. WOMEN IN GERMAN NEWSLETTER (Rob McFarland) That crime fiction written in German represents a curious case has been established before, but a more wide-reaching case can indeed be made for contemporary German-language crime fiction, and the editors and contributors of this volume succeed in doing so quite admirably. JOURNAL OF AUSTRIAN STUDIES (Thomas Kniesche)
Author Information
KYLE FRACKMAN is Associate Professor of German & Scandinavian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Sascha Andreas Gerhards is a Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Wittenberg University in Springfield, OH
