The Bible In Crime Fiction And Drama

Author : Caroline Blyth,Alison Jack
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567677990

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The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama by Caroline Blyth,Alison Jack Pdf

The Bible has always enjoyed notoriety within the genres of crime fiction and drama; numerous authors have explicitly drawn on biblical traditions as thematic foci to explore social anxieties about violence, religion, and the search for justice and truth. The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama brings together a multi-disciplinary scholarship from the fields of biblical interpretation, literary criticism, criminology, and studies in film and television to discuss international texts and media spanning the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. The volume concludes with an afterword by crime writer and academic, Liam McIvanney. These essays explore both explicit and implicit engagements between biblical texts and crime narratives, analysing the multiple layers of meaning that such engagements can produce – cross-referencing Sherlock Holmes with the murder mystery in the Book of Tobit, observing biblical violence through the eyes of Christian fundamentalists in Henning Mankell's Before the Frost, catching the thread of homily in the serial murders of Se7en, or analysing biblical sexual violence in light of television crime procedurals. The contributors also raise intriguing questions about the significance of the Bible as a religious and cultural text – its association with the culturally pervasive themes of violence, (im)morality, and redemption, and its relevance as a symbol of the (often fraught) location that religion occupies within contemporary secular culture.

Author : Mary Anna Evans,J.C. Bernthal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350212497

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie by Mary Anna Evans,J.C. Bernthal Pdf

Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical / Biography The first specifically academic companion to contemporary scholarship on the work of Agatha Christie, this book includes chapters by an international group of scholars writing on topics and fields of study as various as ecocriticism and the anthropocene, popular modernism, middlebrow fiction, queer theory, feminism, crime and the state, and more. It addresses a broad selection of Christie's crime novels, as well as her short stories, literary novels written pseudonymously, and her own and others' dramatic adaptations for television, film, and the stage. Featuring unprecedented access to images and content held in Christie's personal archive, as well as a Foreword from renowned crime fiction writer Val McDermid, this is essential reading for anyone interested in Christie's work and legacy.

Author : John Kaltner,Steven L. McKenzie
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467456739

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Sleuthing the Bible by John Kaltner,Steven L. McKenzie Pdf

Why is there crime-scene tape on my Bible? Elementary, my dear reader. There is an element of detective work to biblical scholarship that entails sniffing out and interpreting clues that often escape the notice of readers. John Kaltner and Steven L. McKenzie introduce the art of sleuthing the Bible, providing the necessary training to hunt for clues and piece them together to understand the larger picture. Sleuthing the Bible helps answer questions that occur during thoughtful examination of the Bible and provides exercises enabling readers to work through biblical passages on their own. Kaltner and McKenzie analyze two kinds of clues: (1) Smoking Guns— those that are obvious upon any close reading of biblical texts, and (2) Dusting for Prints—those that are more subtle or hidden from nonspecialists because of their unfamiliarity with the languages, culture, and larger content of the Bible. Written in a jargon-free and accessible style, Sleuthing the Bible is an ideal resource for anyone who wants to dig deeper into the biblical text.

Author : J.C. Bernthal
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN : 9781476676203

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Agatha Christie by J.C. Bernthal Pdf

The undisputed "Queen of Crime," Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the bestselling novelist of all time. As the creator of immortal detectives Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, she continues to enthrall readers around the world and is drawing increasing attention from scholars, historians, and critics. But Christie wrote far beyond Poirot and Marple. A varied life including war work, archaeology, and two very different marriages provided the backdrop to a diverse body of work. This encyclopedic companion summarizes and explores Christie's entire literary output, including the detective fiction, plays, radio dramas, adaptations, and her little-studied non-crime writing. It details all published works and key themes and characters, as well as the people and places that inspired them, and identifies a trove of uncollected interviews, articles, and unpublished material, including details that have never appeared in print. For the casual reader looking for background information on their favorite mystery to the dedicated scholar tracking down elusive new angles, this companion will provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date information.

Author : Ian Boxall,Bradley C. Gregory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108857161

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The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation by Ian Boxall,Bradley C. Gregory Pdf

This Cambridge Companion offers an up-to-date and accessible guide to the fast-changing discipline of biblical studies. Written by scholars from diverse backgrounds and religious commitments – many of whom are pioneers in their respective fields – the volume covers a range of contemporary scholarly methods and interpretive frameworks. The volume reflects the diversity and globalized character of biblical interpretation in which neat boundaries between author-focused, text-focused, and reader-focused approaches are blurred. The significant space devoted to the reception of the Bible – in art, literature, liturgy, and religious practice – also blurs the distinction between professional and popular biblical interpretation. The volume provides an ideal introduction to the various ways that scholars are currently interpreting the Bible. It offers both beginning and advanced students an understanding of the state of biblical interpretation, and how to explore each topic in greater depth.

Author : C. Gregoriou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230207219

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Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction by C. Gregoriou Pdf

This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which these novelists correspondingly challenge those aforementioned conventions.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1544 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89104097563

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015066169619

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Mitzi M. Brunsdale
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476622774

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Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction by Mitzi M. Brunsdale Pdf

Since the late 1960s, the novels of Sjöwall and Wahlöö’s Martin Beck detective series, along with the works of Henning Mankell, Håkan Nesser and Stieg Larsson, have sparked an explosion of Nordic crime fiction—grim police procedurals treating urgent sociopolitical issues affecting the contemporary world. Steeped in noir techniques and viewpoints, many of these novels are reaching international audiences through film and television adaptations. This reference guide introduces the world of Nordic crime fiction to English–speaking readers. Caught between the demands of conscience and societal strictures, the detectives in these stories—like the heroes of Norse mythology—know that they and their world must perish, but fight on regardless of cost. At a time of bleak eventualities, Nordic crime fiction interprets the bitter end as a celebration of the indomitable human spirit.

Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314170

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Reader's Guide to Literature in English by Mark Hawkins-Dady Pdf

Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.

Author : Murray Lee,Alyce McGovern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136216787

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Policing and Media by Murray Lee,Alyce McGovern Pdf

This book examines the relationship between police, media and the public and analyses the shifting techniques and technologies through which they communicate. In a critical discussion of contemporary and emerging modes of mediatized police work, Lee and McGovern demonstrate how the police engage with the public through a fluid and quickly expanding assemblage of communications and information technologies. Policing and Media explores the rationalities that are driving police/media relations and asks; how these relationships differ (or not) from the ways they have operated historically; what new technologies are influencing and being deployed by policing organizations and police public relations professionals and why; how operational policing is shaping and being shaped by new technologies of communication; and what forms of resistance are evident to the manufacture of preferred images of police. The authors suggest that new forms of simulated and hyper real policing using platforms such as social media and reality television are increasingly positioning police organisations as media organisations, and in some cases enabling police to bypass the traditional media altogether. The book is informed by empirical research spanning ten years in this field and includes chapters on journalism and police, policing and social media, policing and reality television, and policing resistances. It will be of interest to those researching and teaching in the fields of Criminology, Policing and Media, as well as police and media professionals.

Author : Katharina M. Wilson,Paul Schlueter,June Schlueter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135616700

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Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe by Katharina M. Wilson,Paul Schlueter,June Schlueter Pdf

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : American Library Association. Subcommittee on the Revision of the Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction
Publisher : Chicago : American Library Association
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028661267

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Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction, Drama, Etc by American Library Association. Subcommittee on the Revision of the Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction Pdf

Updated Library of Congress subject headings and revisions based on current practice make this the one-stop source for subject headings to classify all types of fiction.

Author : Regina Rudaitytė
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443843928

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Literature in Society by Regina Rudaitytė Pdf

The essays in this volume focus on the text-world dichotomy that has been a pivotal problem since Plato, implicating notions of mimesis and representation and raising a series of debatable issues. Do literary texts relate only to the fictional world and not to the real one? Do they not only describe but also perform and thus create and transform reality? Is literature a mere reflection/expression of society, a field and a tool of political manipulations, a playground to exercise ideological and social power? Herbert Grabes’ seminal essay “Literature in Society/Society and Its Literature”, which opens this volume, perfectly captures the essential functions of literature in society, whether it be Derridean belief in a revolutionary potential of literature, “the power of literature to say everything”, or Hillis Miller’s view of literature having the potential to create or reveal alternative realities; or, according to Grabes, the ability of literature “to offer to society a possibility of self-reflection by way of presenting a double of what is held to be reality”; and, last but not least, the ability of literature “to considerably contribute to the joy of life by enabling a particular kind of pleasure” – the pleasure of reading literature. The subsequent essays collected in this volume deal with complex relations between Literature and Society, approaching this issue from different angles and in various historical epochs. They are on diverse thematics and written from diverse theoretical perspectives, differing in scope and methodology.

Author : Ralph W. Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043627798

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A New Look at Biblical Crime by Ralph W. Scott Pdf