Fatal fascinations
Subtitle: cultural manifestations of crime and violence
By: edited by Suzanne Bray and Gérald Préher
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781443851343
Subjects: Crime in literature; Violence in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Crime and violence in fiction. First steps towards a theology of English detective fiction; title: Policing madness, diagnosing badness : personality disorder and criminal behaviour in Sebastian Faulk's Engleby; title: The otherness within, the otherness without : William Gilmore Summs's "Confessions of a murderer"; title: Dancing to the rhythm of the triple why-dunnit : Toni Morrison's Jazz as crime story; title: "Slaughter without the blood" : crimes of love in Toni Morrison's Trilogy; title: Exploring the pertinence of "violent" as an epithet for Joyce Carol Oate's crime fiction; title: Crime and violence on the stage and screen. Bloody Sam : Sam Peckinpah, violence, conflict and the construction of history; title: "What is crime, what constitutes violence... where and when?" : reflections on two new rewritings of Oliver Twist for the screen; title: "It's all unclear" : the "reality" of Bret Easton Ellis's American psycho and its position within the lilterary conventions of contemporary Gothic fiction; title: A serial killer with a heart : crime and morality in Dexter; title: A brief moment in the great postcolonial story : representations of crime in contemporary South African theatre; title: Dramatizing the violence : MIchel Vinaver's 11 septembre 2001; title: Crime and violence in society. Literary black hats : the representation of the criminal in 18th century crime literature; title: U.S. juvenile justice and the super-predator theory; title: Violence on the menu : representations of meat in fictional and non-fictional texts and contexts; title: A worthy victim? How media stories are influenced and distorted by society's perception of beauty.