Deconstructing True Crime Literature (eBook)

Charlotte Barnes (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2023
212 Seiten
Springer Nature Switzerland (Verlag)
978-3-031-41045-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book provides a critical discussion of True Crime literature, arguing for the deconstruction of the genre into subgenres that better reflect a work’s contents. In analysing seminal and lesser-known works, the areas of authenticity, accuracy, and author proximity are considered to form a framework on which an individual publication’s subgenre (re)categorisation can be assessed. The book considers the likes of Ann Rule, Truman Capote, and Maggie Nelson, among other notable authors. Their works – those that fit into True Crime and those that defy categorisation within the genre as it exists – are reviewed, and their defining features critiqued. Topics such as narrative methodologies, figurative language, and utilisation of research are considered in support of this. These strands combine to a larger discussion regarding a deconstruction of True Crime, and the ways in which this will improve the social responsibility of the genre, and encourage a more conscientious consumerism of it.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.9.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Crime Files
• Reihe/Serie: Crime Files
• Zusatzinfo: XV, 212 p.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Crime Fiction • Narrative methods • Nonfiction • True Crime • truth in true crime
• ISBN-10: 3-031-41045-9 / 3031410459
• ISBN-13: 978-3-031-41045-1 / 9783031410451