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Justice and Revenge in Contemporary American Crime Fiction

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By (author): Stuart Sim

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. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Apr 2015
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781137469656

About Stuart Sim

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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