The thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969
Subtitle: utterly resigned terror
By: Aaron Kelly.
Series: Studies in European cultural transition,; vol. 28
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Burlington, VT; Aldershot, Hants
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: English fiction -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.; Politics and literature -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century.; Literature and society -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century.; Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.; Authors, Irish -- Homes and haunts -- Northern Ireland.; Political violence in literature.; Social conflict in literature.; Violence in literature.; Crime in literature.; Northern Ireland -- In literature.; Northern Ireland -- Intellectual life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: You didn't need a reason to kill people, not here : narrative, the North and historical agency; title: The green unpleasant land : the political unconscious of the British troubles thriller; title: And what do you call it? : the thriller and the problematics of home in Northern Irish writing; title: New languages would have to be invented : representations of Belfast and urban space; title: A man could get lost : constructions of gender; title: It's not for the likes of us to philosophize : the pleasures and politics of thrills, or, towards a political aesthetics; title: Travelling with crime novels / by Walter Benjamin; title: On the popularity of the crime novel / by Bertolt Brecht.