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Investigating Consolation: Consolatory Role of the Environment in Contemporary British Crime Writing

Authors: Roebuck Olga

Year: 2024

Type of publication: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Page from-to: nestránkováno

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Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	Investigating Consolation: Consolatory Role of the Environment in Contemporary British Crime Writing	The paper refers to several contemporary British crime novels in which the environment plays various consolatory roles. First, it aims to address the changing notion of the environment predominantly by allowing a more accurate and up-to-date identity definition. Rather than focusing solely on the investigation of crime or a subject-centred depiction of the environment, these works show engagement and suggest possible ways of reconnecting with the transcendental dimension of the interface between the human and the natural. The importance of experiential knowledge is discussed while referring to notions of immersion and embeddedness. The experience of new cultural layers of the environment activates the awareness of several collective and individual identities. Such readings have been mostly associated with the genre of nature writing, so the question is whether such claims are also applicable to crime writing.	environment; crime writing; consolation