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Contemporary German Crime Fiction

A Companion

Ed. by Kniesche, Thomas W.

Series:Companions to Contemporary German Culture 7

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Publication Date:
October 2019
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2019
ISBN
978-3-11-042660-1
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Frontmatter

Pages I-IV

Preface

Pages V-VI

Contents

Pages VII-X

1. Introduction: German and International Crime Fiction

Kniesche, Thomas W.

Pages 1-16

2. The Beginnings of Swiss Detective Literature: Glauser and Dürrenmatt

Vilas-Boas, Gonçalo

Pages 17-42

3. Modernity and Melancholia: Austrian Crime Fiction

Kniesche, Thomas W.

Pages 43-62

4. The Soziokrimi or Neuer Deutscher Kriminalroman

Kniesche, Thomas W.

Pages 63-80

5. Regionalism and Modernism in Recent German Crime Fiction (1990–2015)

Vogt, Jochen

Pages 81-104

6. Female Empowerment: Women’s Crime Fiction in German

Pailer, Gaby

Pages 105-122

7. Crime Fiction as Memory Discourse: Historical Crime Fiction from Germany

Kniesche, Thomas W.

Pages 123-158

8. The Legacy of the ‘Third Reich’: Reworking the Nazi Past in contemporary German Crime Fiction

Beck, Sandra

Pages 159-182

9. Blood, Sweat and Fears: Investigating the Other in Contemporary German Crime Fiction

Beck, Sandra

Pages 183-206

10. Crime Fiction and the Literary Field in Germany: An Overview

Wörtche, Thomas

Pages 207-228

11. Portal to the Humanities: Teaching German Crime Fiction in the American Academy

Donahue, William Collins / Vogt, Jochen

Pages 229-250

12. Contemporary German Crime Fiction Authors

Kniesche, Thomas W. / Wörtche, Thomas / Vogt, Jochen / Reimers, Kirsten / Moraldo, Sandro M. / Richter, Steffen / Erb, Andreas / Ridley, Hugh / Feldmann, Joachim

Pages 251-304

Contemporary German Crime Fiction: A Bibliography

Pages 305-324

Contributors

Pages 325-328

Index

Pages 329-336

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