Il Giro di Boa

Il Giro di Boa
Author: giulio credazzi
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 164
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 1291945687

Blood on the Table

Blood on the Table
Author: Jean Anderson
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476671753

Written from a multicultural and interdisciplinary perspective, this collection of new essays explores the semiotics of food in the 20th- and 21st-century crime fiction of authors such as Anthony Bourdain, Arthur Upfield, Sara Paretsky, Andrea Camilleri, Fred Vargas, Ruth Rendell, Stieg Larsson, Leonardo Padura, Georges Simenon, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, and Donna Leon. The collection covers a range of issues, such as the provision of intra-, peri- or paratextual recipes, the aesthetics and ethics of food, eating rituals as indications of cultural belonging, and regional, national and supranational identities. It also tackles eating disorders and other seemingly abnormal habits as signs of "Otherness." Also mentioned are the television productions of the Inspector Montalbano series (1999-ongoing), the Danish-Swedish Bron/Broen (2011, The Bridge), and its remakes The Tunnel (2013, France/UK) and The Bridge (2013, USA).

Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction

Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction
Author: Barbara Pezzotti
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2014-01-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786476524

This book comprehensively covers the history of Italian crime fiction from its origins to the present. Using the concept of "moral rebellion," the author examines the ways in which Italian crime fiction has articulated the country's social and political changes. The book concentrates on such writers as Augusto de Angelis (1888-1944), Giorgio Scerbanenco (1911-1969), Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989), Andrea Camilleri (b. 1925), Loriano Macchiavelli (b. 1934), Massimo Carlotto (b. 1956), and Marcello Fois (b. 1960). Through the analysis of writers belonging to differing crucial periods of Italy's history, this work reveals the many ways in which authors exploit the genre to reflect social transformation and dysfunction.

Italian Crime Fiction

Italian Crime Fiction
Author: Giulana Pieri
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2011-10-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0708324339

Italian Crime Fiction is the first study in the English language to focus specifically on Italian detective and noir fiction from the 1930s to the present. The eight chapters include studies on some of the founding fathers of the Italian tradition, and mainstream writers. The volume has a particular focus on the new generation of crime writers.

Methods of Murder

Methods of Murder
Author: Elena Past
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442643889

Past traces the roots of the twentieth-century literature and cinema of crime to two much earlier, diverging interpretations of the criminal: the bodiless figure of Cesare Beccaria's Enlightenment-era On Crimes and Punishments, and the biological offender of Cesare Lombroso's positivist Criminal Man

Serial Crime Fiction

Serial Crime Fiction
Author: Carolina Miranda
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2016-02-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137483695

Serial Crime Fiction is the first book to focus explicitly on the complexities of crime fiction seriality. Covering definitions and development of the serial form, implications of the setting, and marketing of the series, it studies authors such as Doyle, Sayers, Paretsky, Ellroy, Marklund, Camilleri, Borges, across print, film and television.

Mediterranean Crime Fiction

Mediterranean Crime Fiction
Author: Barbara Pezzotti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2023-11-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009451472

By exploring the transcultural nature of Mediterranean crime fiction, Barbara Pezzotti advocates for a regional 'reading' of the genre.

Sicilian Elements in Andrea Camilleri's Narrative Language

Sicilian Elements in Andrea Camilleri's Narrative Language
Author: Cinzia Russi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2020-10-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 168393279X

Sicilian Elements in Andrea Camilleri’s Narrative Language examines Camilleri’s unique linguistic repertoire and techniques over his career as a novelist. It focuses on the intensification of Sicilian linguistic features in Camilleri’s narrative works, in particular features pertaining to the domains of sounds and grammar, since these have been marginalized in linguistic-centered research on the evolution of Camilleri’s narrative language and remain overall understudied. Through a systematic comparative analysis of the distribution patterns of selected Sicilian features in a selection of Camilleri’s historical novels and novels of the Montalbano series, the author identifies the individual features that have become most widespread and the lexical items that are targeted with highest frequency and consistency. The results of the analysis show that in the earlier novels, Sicilian features are rather sparse and can be attributed to linguistic situational functionality; that is, they function as indices of salient, distinctive aspects of topics, settings, events/situations, and characters. Conversely, in the latest novels, Sicilian elements pervade the entire novels and the texts are written almost entirely in Camilleri’s own Sicilian, vigatese, so that Sicilian is stripped of any linguistic situational functionality.

The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction
Author: Barbara Pezzotti
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 161147552X

An analysis of the relationship between detective fiction and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last 20 years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country.

Sicily on Screen

Sicily on Screen
Author: Giovanna Summerfield
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476638721

With its physical beauty and kaleidoscopic cultural background, Sicily has long been a source of inspiration for filmmakers. Twelve new essays by international scholars--and additional writings from directors Roberta Torre, Giovanna Taviani, and Costanza Quatriglio--seek to offset the near-absence of scholarship focusing on the relationship between the Mediterranean island and cinema. Touching on class relations, immigration, gender and poverty, the essays examine how Sicily is depicted in fiction, satire and documentaries. Situated between North and South, East and West, innovation and tradition, authenticity and displacement, Sicily acts as a microcosm of the world, a place to explore numerous narratives and develop intercultural dialogue. It is also the center of cinematographic discussions and events such as the Taormina Film Festival and the SalinaDocFest. The volume presents Sicily almost as a character and creator in its own right.