The importance of place in Italian crime fiction
Subtitle: a bloody journey
By: Barbara Pezzotti
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781611475524; 9781611475531
Subjects: Setting (Literature); Italian Detective and mystery stories; Place (Philosophy) in literature; History and criticism; Cities and towns in literature; Italian fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Giallo and the city. Milan, the city of crime; title: Turin, between history and news; title: Naples, the sulphurous city; title: Palermo, beauty and the Mafia; title: Giallo and urban sprawl. Sicily between old and new; title: Sardinia, the motherland; title: Interviews.