Justice and Revenge in Contemporary American Crime Fiction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137469656)

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Justice and Revenge in Contemporary American Crime Fiction

$54.99

Justice and Revenge in Contemporary American Crime Fiction

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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The detective figure in contemporary American crime fiction increasingly relies on revenge to bring about justice in a society where there has been a sharp decline in moral values. This study demonstrates how the notion of the detective as a moral exemplar or heroic ideal breaks down in the works of writers such as James Ellroy and Sara Paretsky.

Author: Stuart Sim
ISBN-10: 113746965X
ISBN-13: 9781137469656
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2015
Pages: 133
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d
By Stuart Sim
By Stuart Sim
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Stuart Sim is retired Professor of Critical Theory at Northumbria University, UK. A Fellow of the English Association, he has published widely in the fields of critical theory and the novel as social criticism. Recent works include The End of Modernity (2010), The Lyotard Dictionary (ed., 2011), and Fifty Key Thinkers in Postmodernism (2013).

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