Scandinavian Crime Fiction

With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Sjowall and Wahloo's Novel of a Crime , Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum series, Peter Hoeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow , Henning Mankell's Wallander books, Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and TV series such as The Killing . With its focus on the function of crime fiction in both reflecting and shaping the late-modern Scandinavian welfare societies, this book is essential for readers, viewers and fans of contemporary crime writing.

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• Authors: Nielsen Ja Stougaard, Stougaard Nielsen Ja, Dr Jakob (University College London Stougaard-Nielsen, Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, Jakob (University College London Stougaard-Nielsen
• Assisted by: Katy Shaw (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2017
• EAN: 9781472527745
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-2774-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 214 mm x 138 mm x 16 mm
• Series: 21st Century Genre Fiction; 21st Century Genre Fiction
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Scandinavian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Scandinavian languages, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form