Scandinavian crime fiction
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Scandinavian crime fiction
Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
（21st century genre fiction）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017
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Summary: "With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy, Henning Mankell's Wallander books and TV series such as The Killing. Including guides to further reading and online resources to help readers explore the genre for themselves, this book is essential for readers, viewers and fans of contemporary crime writing"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography: p. [213]-223
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Sjoewall and Wahloeoe's Novel of a Crime, Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum series, Peter Hoeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Henning Mankell's Wallander books, Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and TV series such as The Killing. With its focus on the function of crime fiction in both reflecting and shaping the late-modern Scandinavian welfare societies, this book is essential for readers, viewers and fans of contemporary crime writing.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Scandinavian crime fiction and the welfare state
2. Welfare crime: Sjoewall and Wahloeoe's Novel of a Crime
3. The hardboiled social worker: Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum
4. Crime fiction in an age of crisis: Henning Mankell's Faceless Killers and Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
5. Landscape and memory in the criminal periphery
6. Criminal peripheries: Peter Hoeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for snow and Kerstin Ekman's Blackwater
7. Investigating the family in the welfare state
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"