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Representations of Space in Contemporary American Crime Fiction

Autoři: Bubíková Šárka

Rok: 2021

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Representations of Space in Contemporary American Crime Fiction	This was an invited parallel lecture, where my latest research on the ways space is represented in contemporary American (ethnic) crime fiction was presented. Combining phenomenological approaches of Gaston Bachelard (1957) with the categorization of attitudes to landscape as proposed by Stephen Siddall (2009), as well as employing the concept of place as literary topos as formulated by Czech scholars Michal Peprník (2005) and Daniela Hodrová (1994), the lecture analyzed works of several American crime fiction writers to show how they variously create textual representations of space and how they employ them in the genre of crime fiction. As Lisa Fletcher has pointed out, there is “a powerful correspondence between types of setting and types of narratives” (1) and therefore studying textual representation of space in connection with a particular genre can provide an interesting insight into our spatial and narrative awareness and imagination. The lecture focused on two locations in crime fiction - countryside and wilderness.	space; place; American crime fiction; idyllic countryside; wilderness