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  • Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction

    Narratology and Detective Criticism

    by Alistair Rolls ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book brings a new lens to the work of Agatha Christie through a series of close readings which challenge the official solutions by Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.This book's approach interweaves two core ideas: first, it explores the importance of French critic Pierre Bayard’s self-styled ‘detective criticism’; second, it takes detective criticism in a new direction by refocusing on the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction

    Edited by Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King, Alistair Rolls ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Accessible yet comprehensive, this first systematic account of crime fiction across the globe offers a deep and thoroughly nuanced understanding of the genre's transnational history. Offering a lucid account of the major theoretical issues and comparative perspectives that constitute world crime fiction, this book introduces readers to the international crime fiction publishing industry, the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Remembering Paris in Text and Film

    Edited by Alistair Rolls, Marguerite Johnson ...
    This new book explores aspects of Paris from the time of Baudelaire within the context of nostalgia and modernity. It seeks to see Paris, through written texts and movies, from the outside, and as both concrete reality and a collection of myths associated with it.This collection of essays contains original research on the intersections of several disciplinary approaches to Paris and modernity. It ... Read more

    $74.69 USD

  • Translating National Allegories

    The Case of Crime Fiction

    Edited by Alistair Rolls, John West-Sooby, Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan ...
    This book explores the intersection of a number of academic areas of study that are all, individually, of growing importance: translation studies, crime fiction and world literature. The scholars included here are leaders in one or more of these areas. The frame of this volume is imagological; its focus is on the ways in which national allegories are constructed and deconstructed, encompassing ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator

    Edited by Alistair Rolls, Rachel Franks ...
    The private investigator is one of the most enduring characters within crime fiction. From Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade – the hard-boiled loner trawling the mean streets – to Agatha Christie’s Captain Hastings – the genteel companion in greener surrounds – the P. I. has taken on any number of guises. In Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator, editors Alistair Rolls and Rachel Franks dive deep into ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Unbridling the Western Film Auteur

    Contemporary, Transnational and Intertextual Explorations

    Edited by Emma Hamilton, Alistair Rolls ...
    According to Jim Kitses (1969), the Western originally offered American directors a rich canvas to express a singular authorial vision of the American past and its significance. The Western’s recognizable conventions and symbols, rich filmic heritage, and connections to pulp fiction created a widely spoken «language» for self-expression and supplemented each filmmaker’s power to express their ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Still Loitering

    Australian Essays in Honour of Ross Chambers

    Edited by Valentina Gosetti, Alistair Rolls ...
    Series Book 28 - Romanticism and after in France / Le Romantisme et après en France
    In late October 2017, the profoundly sad news of Ross Chambers’s passing reached Australia. Friends and colleagues scattered around the globe mourned the loss of a person of great ‘humanity and humility’, one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. This book is a tribute to Chambers’s life and work and to his legacy among scholars in the global French studies, comparative literature and ... Read more

    $62.19 USD

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    Critical Approaches to French-language Comic Strip

    by Ann Miller ...
    The increasing popularity of bande dessinee, or French-language comic strip, means that it is being established on university syllabuses worldwide. Reading Bande Dessinee provides a thorough introduction to the medium and in-depth critical analysis with focus on contemporary examples of the art form, historical context, key artists, and themes such as gender, autobiography and postcolonial culture ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Film Studies

    by Andrew M. Butler ...
    Series series Pocket Essential series
    Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. This book offers a concise introduction to the appreciation and study of film. It begins with the nuts and bolts, an examination ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Mise en Scène

    Staging Theatre Today

    by Patrice Pavis ...
    Translated by Joel Anderson ...
    ‘We have good reason to be wary of mise en scène, but that is all the more reason to question this wariness ... it seems that images from a performance come back to haunt us, as if to prolong and transform our experience as spectators, as if to force us to rethink the event, to return to our pleasure or our terror.’ – Patrice Pavis, from the forewordContemporary Mise en Scène is Patrice Pavis’s ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Text and Image in Modern European Culture

    Edited by Margaret Rigaud-Drayton, Natasha Grigorian, Thomas Baldwin ...
    Series series Comparative Cultural Studies
    Text and Image in Modern European Culture is a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors shed new light on the relations between literature and the visual arts in Europe after 1850. Following tenets of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Narcissistic Narrative

    The Metafictional Paradox

    by Linda Hutcheon ...
    Linda Hutcheon, in this original study, examines the modes, forms and techniques of narcissistic fiction, that is, fiction which includes within itself some sort of commentary on its own narrative and/or linguistic nature. Her analysis is further extended to discuss the implications of such a development for both the theory of the novel and reading theory.Having placed this phenomenon in its ... Read more

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