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Rape in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Beyond -

Rape in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Beyond

Contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone Crime Fiction
Buch | Softcover
219 Seiten
2013 | 1st ed. 2013
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-33898-6 (ISBN)
CHF 97,35 inkl. MwSt
Focusing on the sexualized violence of Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy – including the novels, Swedish film adaptations, and Hollywood blockbusters – this collection of essays puts Larsson's work into dialogue with Scandinavian and Anglophone crime novels by writers including Jo Nesbø, Håkan Nesser, Mo Hayder and Val McDermid.

ZOË BRIGLEY-THOMPSON Lecturer in English and Creative Writing BARBARA FISTER Academic librarian at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, USA MEGHAN FREEMAN Assistant professor in the Department of English at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA PHILIPPA GATES Associate Professor in Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada MARLA HARRIS Independent scholar with a PhD from Brandeis University CLAIRE HENRY PhD candidate in the English, Film and Media department at Anglia Ruskin University, UK YVONNE LEFFLER Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden PRISCILLA WALTON Professor of English at Carleton University in Canada

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; T.Horeck , K.Gregersdotter   B.Åström PART I: STIEG LARSSON'S MILLENNIUM TRILOGY: OPENING UP THE DEBATE 'The Girl Who Pays Our Salaries': Rape and the Bestselling Millennium Trilogy; P.Walton The Millennium Trilogy and the American Serial Killer Narrative: Investigating Protagonists of Men Who Write Women; B.Fister Lisbeth Salander as a Melodramatic Heroine: Emotional Conflicts, Split Focalization and Changing Roles in Scandinavian Crime Fiction; Y.Leffler PART II: DISMEMBERED BODIES, WOUNDED STATES: GENDER POLITICS IN THE MILLENNIUM TRILOGY AND BEYOND Rape and the Avenging Female in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Håkan Nesser's Woman with Birthmark and The Inspector and Silence; M.Harris The Body, Hopelessness and Nostalgia: Representations of Rape and the Welfare State in Swedish Crime Fiction; K.Gregersdotter Over Her Dismembered Body: the Crime Fiction of Mo Hayder and Jo Nesbø; B.Åström PART III: REWRITING SCRIPTS: LANGUAGE, GENDER AND VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY CRIME FICTION Disarticulated Figures: Language and Sexual Violence in Contemporary Crime Fiction; M.Freeman Male Fantasy, Sexual Exploitation and the Femme Fatale: Reframing Scripts of Power and Gender in Neo-Noir Novels by Sara Paretsky, Megan Abbott and Stieg Larsson; Z.Brigley-Thompson PART IV: ETHICS, VIOLENCE AND ADAPTATION Rape and Replay in Stieg Larsson, Liza Marklund and Val McDermid: On Affect, Ethics and Feeling Bad; T.Horeck The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo : Rape, Revenge and Victimhood in Cinematic Translation; C.Henry 'Hidden in the Snow': Female Violence against the Men Who Hate Women in the Millennium Adaptations; P.Gates Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo XI, 219 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Literatur
Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Schlagworte Cinema • Essay • Fiction • Film • Film adaptation • Hollywood • Novel
ISBN-10 1-349-33898-2 / 1349338982
ISBN-13 978-1-349-33898-6 / 9781349338986
Zustand Neuware
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