TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marco Paoli
PY  - 2016
CY  - Bruxelles, Belgium
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035266047
TI  - Giorgio Scerbanenco
T2  - Urban Space, Violence and Gender Identity in Post-War Italian Crime Fiction
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0352-6604-7
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053974
N2  - The works of Giorgio Scerbanenco repeatedly articulate and explore the implications of new forms of criminality that emerged in Italy’s post-war transformation towards its «economic miracle». An indepth analysis of Scerbanenco’s Duca Lamberti series constitutes the critical focus of this study, and in particular the psychological resonances of the role played by the author’s controversial representation of the urban space, its violence, (in)justice and gender roles. In what way do these elements heighten and/or exaggerate the nature of the criminal acts and the reader’s experience? This study therefore investigates a reader’s potential response to the content, the settings, and, above all, the characters Scerbanenco portrays in these four novels.
KW  - Urban space, Crime in Italy, post-war period, Italian Crime Fiction, violence and gender in Giorgio Scerbanenco's crime fiction of the post-war period
LA  - English
ER  -