TY  - BOOK
AU  - Past,Elena
TI  - Methods of murder: Beccarian introspection and Lombrosian vivisection in Italian crime fiction 
SN  - 9781442698093
AV  - PQ4181.D4 P38 2012eb
U1  - 853/.0872090914 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Toronto [Ont.]
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Beccaria, Cesare,
KW  - Lombroso, Cesare,
KW  - Dei delitti e delle pene (Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di)
KW  - fast
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, Italian
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Crime in literature
KW  - Roman policier italien
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Crimes dans la littérature
KW  - Criminalité dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - Italian
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Italienisch
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kriminalliteratur
KW  - Brott i litteraturen
KW  - sao
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: The Mysterious Case of Crime Fiction in Italy -- Part One: Beccarian Introspection -- 1 Investigative Introspection: Cesare Beccaria's Disembodied Criminal -- 2 Dark Ends for Leonardo Sciascia's Enlightened Detectives -- 3 Andrea Camilleri's Sicilian Simulacrum -- 4 Violence and the Law in Gianrico Carofiglio's Beccarian Courtroom -- Part Two: Lombrosian Vivisection -- 5 Cesare Lombroso Vivisects the Criminal -- 6 Carlo Emilio Gadda's Bodies of Evidence -- 7 Dario Argento's Aesthetics of Violence -- 8 Carlo Lucarelli's Lombrosian Nightmare -- Epilogue: Crime in the Twenty-First Century
N2  - Past traces the roots of the twentieth-century literature and cinema of crime to two much earlier, diverging interpretations of the criminal: the bodiless figure of Cesare Beccaria's Enlightenment-era On Crimes and Punishments, and the biological offender of Cesare Lombroso's positivist Criminal Man
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