Output details
28 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
University of St Andrews
Book title
French Crime Fiction 1945-2005 : Investigating World War II
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Ashgate
ISBN of book
978-0-7546-6869-5
Year of publication
2013
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
c
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
One of only two major studies (the other published whilst this one was in production) to examine representations of World War II in French crime fiction, and the only one to deal with such a substantive corpus of primary texts: over 150 works by more than 90 authors, covering a publication range of 1946-2008. The book’s originality and complexity lies in its dual focus on two discourses – those relating to crime fiction and WWII – and its consequent reappraisal of often calcified identity categories; such as the ‘criminal’, ‘investigator’, ‘resistant hero’.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
