Criminal Moves - Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction

Criminal Moves is a ground-breaking collection of essays that challenges the distinction between literary and popular fiction and proposes that crime fiction is a genre that constantly violates its own boundaries. Reorienting crime fiction studies towards the mobility of the genre, it has profound ramifications for how we read individual crime stories.

About the author

Jesper Gulddal is Associate Professor in Literary Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Alistair Rolls is Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Stewart King is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Catalan Studies at Monash University, Australia.

Summary

Criminal Moves is a ground-breaking collection of essays that challenges the distinction between literary and popular fiction and proposes that crime fiction is a genre that constantly violates its own boundaries. Reorienting crime fiction studies towards the mobility of the genre, it has profound ramifications for how we read individual crime stories.

Product details

• Authors: Jesper Gulddal, Jesper Rolls Gulddal
• Assisted by: Jesper Gulddal (Editor), Stewart King (Editor), Alistair Rolls (Editor)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781789620580
• ISBN: 978-1-78962-058-0
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies; Liverpool English Texts and St
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies