scholarly journals Zło patriarchatu. O Gniewie Zygmunta Miłoszewskiego jako kryminale zaangażowanym

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olimpia Orządała
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Support System ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
Crime Novel ◽  
Victim Support

This paper focuses on social commitment in crime fiction. Based on Zygmunt Miłoszewski’s Rage, it discusses the theme of violence against women and that of the criticism of the victim support system. The author of this article proposes the name for a new literary genre – the committed crime novel.

scholarly journals Bloody Women: How Female Authors Have Transformed the Scottish Contemporary Crime Fiction Genre

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-71
Author(s):  
Lorna Hill
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Crime Novel ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Changing Attitudes

Abstract This study will explore the role of female authors in contemporary Scottish crime fiction. Over the past thirty years, women writers have overhauled the traditionally male dominated genre of crime fiction by writing about strong female characters who drive the plot and solve the crimes. Authors including Val McDermid, Denise Mina and Lin Anderson are just a few of the women who have challenged the expectation of gender and genre. By setting their novels in contemporary society they reflect a range of social and political issues through the lens of a female protagonist. By closely examining the female characters, both journalists, in Val McDermid’s Lindsay Gordon series and Denise Mina’s Paddy Meehan series, I wish to explore the issue of gender through these writers’ perspectives. This essay documents the influence of these writers on my own practice-based research which involves writing a crime novel set in a post referendum Scotland. I examine a progressive and contemporary Scottish society, where women hold many senior positions in public life, and investigate whether this has an effect on the outcome of crimes. Through this narrative, my main character will focus on the current and largely hidden crimes of human trafficking and domestic abuse. By doing this I examine the ways in which the modern crime novel has evolved to cross genre boundaries. In addition to focusing on a crime, the victims and witnesses, today’s crime novels are tackling social issues to reflect society’s changing attitudes and values.

Unreliable Narration in Law and Fiction

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-338
Author(s):  
Daniel Del Gobbo
Keyword(s):  
Crime Fiction ◽  
High Court ◽  
Law System ◽  
Crime Novel ◽  
Objective Interpretation ◽  
Essential Quality ◽  
Fiction Writers ◽  
The Common ◽  
Agatha Christie ◽  
Unreliable Narration

This article revisits long-standing debates about objective interpretation in the common law system by focusing on a crime novel by Agatha Christie and judicial opinion by the Ontario High Court. Conventions of the crime fiction and judicial opinion genres inform readers’ assumption that the two texts are objectively interpretable. This article challenges this assumption by demonstrating that unreliable narration is often, if not always, a feature of written communication. Judges, like crime fiction writers, are storytellers. While these authors might intend for their stories to be read in certain ways, the potential for interpretive disconnect between unreliable narrators and readers means there can be no essential quality that marks a literary or legal text’s meaning as objective. Taken to heart, this demands that judges try to narrate their decisions more reliably so that readers are able to interpret the texts correctly when it matters most.

Per una metodologia del protogiallo italiano: Problemi e proposte

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 511-531
Author(s):  
Francesca Facchi
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Classification Problem ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
Crime Novel ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Famous Trials ◽  
Methodological Difficulties

In the first systematic study about the Italian detective novel (1979), Loris Rambelli dates the beginnings of the genre to 1929, the publication year of the first of publisher Mondadori's ‘Yellow Books’ (Libri Gialli), the series of yellow-covered books which made the ‘giallo’ synonymous with a crime novel. Nonetheless, texts dealing with mysteries, criminals, police, trials and detection enthralled Italian readers from the 1850s on, complying with the modern dynamics of mass phenomena, contributing to the modern conception of the genre, and playing a crucial role in the culture and society of a recently unified Italy. Not conforming to a recognizable genre-structure, the pre-1929 period has been defined the “prehistory of Italian crime fiction” or protogiallo and has become a topic of academic interest only in recent years. The newness of the scholarship explains the methodological difficulties researchers have to face, such as the classification problem – it is very complex to establish common critical criteria for analyzing diverse materials such as feuilletons, novels, short stories and famous trials journals – and the objective delay in the development of the genre in Italy, especially compared to the British, American and French cases. Building on the recent line of investigation, this paper examines such critical issues in order to identify a methodological approach and a theoretical framework useful to study the prehistory of Italian crime fiction.

scholarly journals Mediating the North in Crime Fiction

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 538-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Nilsson
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
The North ◽  
Cultural Expressions ◽  
Contemporary Cinema ◽  
Political Dimensions

The multifaceted idea of the north is deeply embedded in literary and visual culture. This culturally forged and globally disseminated idea embraces the narratives of fear, as well elements of the supernatural and fantastic, political dimensions or specific topographies. By departing from the Nordic Noir subgenre, a globally dispersed literary genre, this article investigates how the depiction of local and global place creates an imaginary, which is in turn bound up with a broader notion of the north as an ostensible “elsewhere.” The article argues that the Nordic Noir’s foreign allure and overwhelming success rests upon a culturally forged idea of the north, found worldwide in various cultural expressions such as myths, folklore, fairy tales, literature, and contemporary cinema and trails centuries back in cultural history worldwide.

scholarly journals Sobre la existencia de una novela policíaca española : un breve repaso a sus principales títulos, autores e hitos

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Diego Ernesto Parra Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Crime Fiction ◽  
The Political ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
Crime Novel ◽  
The One

This article intends to reflect on the convenience or inconvenience of talking about Spanish detective novel as a solid and influential crime novel trend as the British, the French or the U. S. crime fiction trends. With this aim, apart from having a look to the main arguments either in favor or against this consideration, this work delves into the most important titles and the most representative authors, on the one hand, and into the political, social and economical events which have surrounded the Spanish crime fiction from its origin.

scholarly journals Disclosing violence in calls for help

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Tennent ◽  
Ann Weatherall
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Direct Reference ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
The World ◽  
Victim Support ◽  
Effects Of Violence

© 2019, equinox publishing. Violence against women is a pervasive problem, both in New Zealand society and around the world. Yet assessing the scale and effects of violence is difficult, as many women face barriers to disclosure. This paper examines women's disclosures of violence in calls for help to a victim support agency. We use conversation analysis and focus on membership categorisation to describe the different ways disclosures are built and understood in situ. It was only in a minority of cases (around 20%), that callers made direct reference to violence, or categorised themselves explicitly as victims, albeit with indications of problems in speaking. However, for the majority, women did not mention the words 'victim' or 'violence' at all. Instead, culturally shared knowledge associated with categories of people (e.g. ex-partners) and places (e.g. home and jail) were used to build and interpret a description as a disclosure of violence. Our work contributes to an understanding of women's disclosures of violence by examining them directly in the setting where they occur. We discuss some of the insights gained from examining interactions in situ, and the practical applications of our work for improving services for women who have experienced violence.

Cultural Studies Approaches to the Study of Crime in Literature

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
Crime Literature ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
Crime In Literature

Crime in literature takes advantage of two basic assumptions: (1) that the storyline generally begins with a crime (very often murder) that underlies the subsequent narrative, often serving as the driving force of the story; and (2) that the crime itself and its narrative implications will be rooted in the actual workings of a culture’s justice system at any given moment in time. Consequently, crime literature in particular provides readers with a snapshot of prevailing attitudes about the nature of justice in a society and the basic fears about crime that threaten its collective conscience. To understand crime fiction from a cultural studies perspective, it is necessary to develop a broader understanding of the larger culture from which an author and his/her fictional creations emerge. Although writers create fiction for various reasons, publishers put their efforts into projects they hope will be somewhat financially profitable. Thus, published works exist in a culturally-specific space that never veers too far from the values, beliefs, and expectations of its mainstream society. To understand the fictional world conjured by an author a cultural studies approach takes into consideration larger socio-historical phenomena: What kinds of mythologies underlie a culture’s traditions? What historical events have helped shape the culture’s identity? What sort of political and legal systems organize the culture? What specific kinds of crime tend to be highlighted in a culture’s crime literature (guns, drugs, race, violence against women, class warfare, government corruption and repression, etc.)? What role do legitimate legal structures tend to play in a culture’s crime literature? What role does climate play in a culture’s identity? In short, a cultural studies approach begins by trying to determine the assumptions authors make about readers’ cultural knowledge, values, beliefs, and myths about crime and justice in order to develop a context for understanding what is taken for granted in the narrative.

scholarly journals Crime and Violence in the Fiction of Caterina Albert / Víctor Català Connections with the Crime Novel

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lluïsa Julià Capdevila
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Crime Novel

After classifying the fictional genres that are to be found in the seven volumes of short stories by Caterina Albert / Víctor Català that were published between 1902 and 1951, this article studies the ways in which the corrosive sense and presence of violence and crime are used against the patriarchal system in her work. The new line of research presented here, comparing Víctor Català’s short stories with crime fiction, is still in its early stages. The analysis of some specific stories also considers the technical evolution and introduction of cinematographic forms. Finally, it is noted how Víctor Català is a precursor of women writers of today’s increasingly popular crime fiction.

Behind the Locked Door

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Jean Fornasiero ◽  
John West-Sooby
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
World War ◽  
The Social ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Crime Novel ◽  
Social Anxieties ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
First World ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

This chapter deals with the social anxieties of the Belle Époque and the way in which they emerged in French crime fiction. To this end, it challenges prevailing assumptions about the pioneering crime fiction of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century France, revealing that the novels of Maurice Leblanc and Gaston Leroux depict the golden age that preceded the First World War while also critiquing the dominant paradigm of the day. The chapter shows how these authors comment on society using the tropes of the crime novel, while also giving greater complexity to the crime novel by introducing the social networks and genealogies of ambiguous, damaged protagonists. These novels are also shown to have embraced psychoanalysis, which was still in its infancy.

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