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      Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction

      Alistair Rolls

      This book brings a new lens to the work of Agatha Christie through a series of close readings which challenge the official solutions by Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. This…

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      Mostly French: French (in) Detective Fiction

      This book, which was inspired by a conference on plural conjugations of Frenchness (La France au pluriel) held in 2007 at the Universities of Technology, Sydney and Newcastle, focuses on…

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      Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction: Narratology and Detective Criticism

      Alistair Rolls (University of Newcastle)

      This book brings a new lens to the work of Agatha Christie through a series of close readings which challenge the official solutions by Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. This…

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      Still Loitering: Australian Essays in Honour of Ross Chambers

      Loiterature, perhaps Ross Chambers’s most famous book, prescribes slow and careful reading practices but also quick-witted analysis. This collection draws together tributes, essays and critical responses to his wide-ranging work…

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      French and American Noir: Dark Crossings

      Alistair Rolls,Deborah Walker

      A longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir suggests that the post-war French thriller and film noir were a development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book…

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      Unbridling the Western Film Auteur: Contemporary, Transnational and Intertextual Explorations

      The Western has traditionally offered American film directors a rich canvas to express visions of the American past. This volume revisits the Western in a transnational context, exploring the role…

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      Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator

      The private investigator is one of the most enduring characters within crime fiction. From Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade - the hard-boiled loner trawling the mean streets - to Agatha Christie’s…

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      Remembering Paris in Text and Film

      For Baudelaire, Paris streets conjured visions of the past even as he contemplated the present. This book investigates this and other cases of double vision, tracing back into antiquity and…

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      Remembering Paris in Text and Film

      For Baudelaire, Paris streets conjured visions of the past even as he contemplated the present. This book investigates this and other cases of double vision, tracing back into antiquity and…

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      Masking Strategies: Unwrapping the French Paratext

      Gerard Genette’s seminal study of the paratext, Seuils, is the starting point for this collection of essays, all of which seek not only to engage with Genette’s taxonomy and apply…

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      Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction

      Criminal Moves is a ground-breaking collection of essays that challenges the distinction between literary and popular fiction and proposes that crime fiction is a genre that constantly violates its own…

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      The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction

      Accessible yet comprehensive, this is the first systematic account of crime fiction’s rich history and extraordinary diversity across the globe. Deeply informative for general fiction readers, it also offers an…

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      The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction

      Accessible yet comprehensive, this is the first systematic account of crime fiction’s rich history and extraordinary diversity across the globe. Deeply informative for general fiction readers, it also offers an…

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      Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction

      Criminal Moves is a ground-breaking collection of essays that challenges the distinction between literary and popular fiction and proposes that crime fiction is a genre that constantly violates its own…

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      If I Say If: The Poems and Short Stories of Boris Vian

      Boris Vian is a rare phenomenon. Nothing short of a national treasure in France, he is hardly known overseas. In his lifetime, he divided literary opinion with masterpieces that failed…

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      Translating National Allegories: The Case of Crime Fiction

      This book explores the intersection of translation studies, crime fiction and world literature. National allegories, and the crime novels in which they emerge, foundationally plural texts that promote critical rewriting…

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      Translating National Allegories: The Case of Crime Fiction

      This book explores the intersection of translation studies, crime fiction and world literature. National allegories, and the crime novels in which they emerge, foundationally plural texts that promote critical rewriting…

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      A Fine Corps and Will Serve Faithfully: The Swiss Regiment de Roll in the British Army 1794-1816

      Alistair Nichols

      For centuries Swiss regiments served France, including in Napoleon’s armies. Less recognition has been given to the British Army’s three Swiss regiments during the Napoleonic Wars. This is the story…

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      The Jacobite Cess Roll for the County of Aberdeen in 1715

      Alistair Tayler,Henrietta Tayler

      This is a publication of the Third Spalding Club using available documents in Aberdeen and Edinburgh. It includes genealogical tables taken from information in the Valuation of the County in…

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      Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Serie Noire

      Alistair Charles Rolls,Clara Dominque Sitbon,Marie-Laure Jacqueline Vuaille-Barcan

      In Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Serie Noire Alistair Rolls, Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan propose an account of a translation practice that is surprisingly innovative and that counters…

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