The thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969 utterly resigned terror / Aaron Kelly.

Author/creator Kelly, Aaron
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBurlington, VT ; Aldershot, Hants : Ashgate,
Descriptionviii, 213 p. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
English fiction--Irish authors. --History and criticism.
Politics and literature--Northern Ireland. --History. --20th century.
Literature and society--Northern Ireland. --History. --20th century.
Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism.
Authors, Irish--Homes and haunts. --Northern Ireland.
Political violence in literature.
Social conflict in literature.
Violence in literature.
Crime in literature.
Northern Ireland--In literature.
Northern Ireland--Intellectual life.

SeriesStudies in European cultural transition, vol. 28
Contents You didn't need a reason to kill people, not here : narrative, the North and historical agency -- The green unpleasant land : the political unconscious of the British troubles thriller -- And what do you call it? : the thriller and the problematics of home in Northern Irish writing -- New languages would have to be invented : representations of Belfast and urban space -- A man could get lost : constructions of gender -- It's not for the likes of us to philosophize : the pleasures and politics of thrills, or, towards a political aesthetics -- Travelling with crime novels / by Walter Benjamin -- On the popularity of the crime novel / by Bertolt Brecht.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [172]-209) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2004021831
ISBN0754638391 (alk. paper)