Crime narratives form a large and central part of the modern cultural landscape. This book explores the cognitive stylistic processing of prose and audiovisual fictional crime 'texts'. It also examines instances where such narratives find themselves, through popular demand, 'migrating' - meaning that they cross languages, media formats and/or cultures.In doing so, Crime Fiction Migration proposes a move from a monomodal to a multimodal approach to the study of crime fiction. Examining original crime fiction works alongside their translations, adaptations and remakings proves instrumental in understanding how various semiotic modes interact with one another. The book analyses works such as We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Killing trilogy and the reimaginings of plays such as Shear Madness and films such as Funny Games.Crime fiction is consistently popular and 'on the move' - witness the spate of detective series exported out of Scandinavia, or the ever popular exporting of these shows from the USA. This multimodal and semiotically-aware analysis of global crime narratives expands the discipline and is key reading for students of linguistics, criminology, literature and film.
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Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Crime Fiction Migration Effect2. Migrating into other Media2.1. On novelisation: The case of The Killing2.1.1. The Forbrydelsen effect2.1.2. Writing The Killing down2.2. On filmic adaptation: We need to talk about Kevin some more2.2.1. On the book’s traumatic linguistic style2.2.2. ‘Nobody loves an adaptation’ (Boyum, 1985: 15), or do they?2.3. On theatrical adaptation: Even more Curious Incidents2.3.1. Curious Prose2.3.2. Curious Drama3. Migrating into other Mainlands3.1. On Translation: Greek Markaris’ Late-Night News novel into English3.1.1. Criminal Late-Night News3.1.2. Anglophonising the News3.2 On filmic remaking: Americanising Austrian Funny Games3.2.1. Deviant Metafilmic Games3.2.2. Americanising the Games3.3. On theatrical remaking: Greeking Shear Stylistic Madness3.3.1. A ’mad’ detective play unlike any other3.3.2. Metatheatrical Madness4. ConclusionReferencesIndex
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Explores how crime narratives carry meaning when they 'travel' from one place to another, crossing the boundaries of the language, culture and medium in which they were created.
Innovative and multimodal approach to the study of a genre that continues to adapt and shift to great success
Advances in Stylistics provides student resources and research material in cutting-edge stylistics. It forgoes traditional boundaries to encompass the study of both literary and non-literary texts, and covers exciting new developments in the field. It takes a broad view of stylistics as the practice of using linguistic methodologies and analytical frameworks to facilitate the analysis of texts of all genres and types, for the purpose of explaining why we interpret texts in the way that we do. Books in the series address such topics as stylistic theory, discourse analysis, language and cognition, literary genre, corpus stylistics, the analysis of historical texts, pedagogical stylistics, multimodality and stylistic methodologies. The series further develops stylistic and linguistic theory, to demonstrate the application and value of stylistic tools of analysis and further consolidate stylistics as a major study and research area within language studies.Editorial BoardJean Boase-Beier, University of East Anglia, UKBeatrix Busse, University of Heidelberg, GermanySzilvia Csábi, Independent ScholarYaxiao Cui, University of Nottingham, UKMonika Fludernik, University of Freiburg, GermanyLesley Jeffries, University of Huddersfield, UKManuel Jobert, Jean Moulin University, Lyon 3, FranceLorenzo Mastropierro, University of Nottingham, UKEric Rundquist, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, ChileLarry Stewart, College of Wooster, USAOdette Vassallo, University of Malta, MaltaPeter Verdonk, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsChantelle Warner, University of Arizona, USA
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350099067
Publisert
2019-01-24
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
299 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Biographical note

Christiana Gregoriou is Associate Professor in English Language at the University of Leeds, UK. She runs the Crime Studies Network. Her 2007 book Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction was nominated from the Anthony Boucher Award under 'Best Critical Work'.