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ISBN: 9780990313939

Series Statement: Murder New York Style v.3

Content: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Eldercare -- Dead Last -- Murder Italian Style -- Thanksgiving on the Throgs Neck Bridge -- We All Have Baggage -- The Kaluki Kings of Queens -- Killing Short -- Death Will Fire Your Therapist -- The House by the Bay -- Everything in its Place -- The July Rebellion -- My Brother's Keeper -- Roads -- Crossing the Line -- Stealing Home -- You Always Hurt the One You Love -- Murder In a Family -- Friends -- Sylvia -- Their Little Secret -- About the Authors -- Author Copyrights -- More from These Authors.

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Format: 1 online resource (168 pages)

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ISBN: 9780990313908

Series Statement: Murder New York Style v.2

Content: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Tear Down -- The Doorman Building -- The Sneaker Tree -- Taking the High Line -- The Brighton Beach Mermaid -- Justice for All -- A Morbid Case of Identity Theft -- Only People Kill People -- The Greenmarket Violinist -- The Understudy -- Murder on the Side Street -- Out of Luck -- Tell Me About Your Day -- He's the One -- A Vampire in Brooklyn -- Remember You Will Die -- A Countdown to Death -- A Poet's Justice -- That Summer -- Death Will Tank Your Fish -- North on Clinton -- About the Authors -- Author Copyrights -- More from These Authors.

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Language: English

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (600 p) , 17 B/W illustrations

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ISBN: 9780748653911

Series Statement: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

Content: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Illustrations acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Wars of the Twentieth Century -- Part I: Wars and their Literatures -- 1. Occasioning Peace: Three Poems of the Anglo-Boer War -- 2. 'The essentially modern attitude toward war': English Poetry of the Great War -- 3. Debatable Ground: Freedom and Constraint in British First World War Prose Fiction -- 4. One of Ours in Context: The American World War I Novel -- 5. The 'moaning of the world' and the 'words that bring me peace': Modernism and the First World War -- 6. The Great War and the Moving Image: Cinema and Memory -- 7. Irish Writing of Insurrection and Civil War, 1916-39 -- 8. The Poetry of the Spanish Civil War -- 9. 'Lucid Song': The Poetry of the Second World War -- 10. American Poets of World War II -- 11. Writing after Nuremberg: The Judicial Imagination in the Age of the Trauma Trial -- 12. The Second World War in American Fiction -- 13. The Second World War in British Drama since 1968 -- 14. Holocaust Testimony: Understanding and Criticism -- 15. Holocaust Film -- 16. O, Do Not Dream of Peace: American Poetry of the Korean War -- 17. The Fictions of Nuclear War, from Hiroshima to Vietnam -- 18. Cold War Films -- 19. Britain's Small Wars: Domesticating 'Emergency' -- 20. The Disappeared and the Damned: Duplicity, Complicity and Reality in the Literature of the Pax Americana -- 21. Vietnam Fictions -- 22. 'Will there be peace again?': American and Vietnamese Poetry on the Vietnam/American War -- 23. Poetry and the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' -- 24. The Literature of the Falklands/Malvinas War -- 25. 'An Uneven Killing Field': British Literature and the Former Yugoslavia -- 26. Sacrifice and the Sublime since 11 September 2001 -- Part II: Bodies, Behaviour, Cultures -- Introduction: Bodies, Behaviour, Cultures -- 27. War Memorials -- 28. Unsettled Memory: A Meditation on Contested Ground -- 29. War, Policing and Surveillance: Pat Barker and the Secret State -- 30. American Psychiatry, World War II and the Korean War -- 31. Pacifists and Conscientious Objectors -- 32. The Representation of Refugees in Arthur Koestler's Arrival and Departure and Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore -- 33. 'These rooms / run into each other like tunnels / leading to the underworld': Race in War Literature -- 34. A Spy Under Every Bed: Espionage and Popular Literature from the First World War -- 35. Reflections on the Enemy: From Evil Nazis to Good Germans -- Part III: Technology -- Introduction: Technology -- 36. Camouflage and the Re-enchantment of Warfare -- 37. Warplane -- 38. Monsarrat's Corvettes and the Battle of the Atlantic -- 39. Submarine Novels 'After History' -- 40. 'An ecstasy of fumbling': Gas Warfare, 1914-18 and the Uses of Affect -- 41. Paul Virilio as Twentieth-Century Military Strategist: War, Cinema and the Logistics of Perception -- 42. Word Electric, So Finite: Radio, Poetry and the Séance in World War I -- Part IV: Spaces -- Introduction: Spaces -- 43. The Trenches -- 44. Literature of the Camps in the Second World War -- 45. 'That fi ghting was a long way off ': Desert and Jungle War Poems -- 46. Cityscape: The Bombed City in the Second World War -- 47. The Eight-week College of the Age of Extremes: The Barracks and the Training Ground -- Part V: Genres -- Introduction: Genres -- 48. Contemporary War Drama: Caryl Churchill -- 49. Nuclear War in Science Fiction -- 50. The Children's War -- 51. The Troubles with the Thriller: Northern Ireland, Political Violence and the Peace Process -- 52. Fantasies of Complicity in the Second World War -- 53. Visualising the Transformations of War: War and Art in the Twentieth Century -- 54. Twentieth-Century Spy Fiction -- 55. 'Play Up and Play the Game!': The Narrative of War Games -- 56. War Correspondence -- 57. Thinking War -- Notes on contributors -- Index

Content: The first reference to literary and cultural representations of war in 20th-century English & US literature and filmCoving the two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the War on Terror, this Companion reveals the influence of modern wars on the imagination.These newly researched and innovative essays connect 'high' literary studies to the engagement of film and theatre with warfare, extensively cover the literary and cultural evaluation of the technologies of war and open the literary field to genre fiction. Divided into 5 sections: 20th-Century Wars and Their LiteraturesBodies, Behaviours, CulturesThe Cultural Impact of the Technologies of Modern WarThe Spaces of Modern WarGenres of War CultureKey FeaturesAll-new original essays commissioned from major critics and cultural historiansReflects the way war studies are currently being taught and researched: in the volume's approach, structure and breadth of coverageFor scholars: core arguments and detailed research topicsFor students: Historically grounded topic- and genre-based essays, useful forstudying the modern period and war modules

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Format: 1 online resource (600 p.) : , 17 B/W illustrations

ISBN: 9780748653911

Series Statement: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

Content: The first reference to literary and cultural representations of war in 20th-century English & US literature and filmCoving the two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the War on Terror, this Companion reveals the influence of modern wars on the imagination.These newly researched and innovative essays connect 'high' literary studies to the engagement of film and theatre with warfare, extensively cover the literary and cultural evaluation of the technologies of war and open the literary field to genre fiction. Divided into 5 sections: 20th-Century Wars and Their LiteraturesBodies, Behaviours, CulturesThe Cultural Impact of the Technologies of Modern WarThe Spaces of Modern WarGenres of War CultureKey FeaturesAll-new original essays commissioned from major critics and cultural historiansReflects the way war studies are currently being taught and researched: in the volume's approach, structure and breadth of coverageFor scholars: core arguments and detailed research topicsFor students: Historically grounded topic- and genre-based essays, useful forstudying the modern period and war modules

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , Illustrations -- , Illustrations acknowledgements -- , Introduction: The Wars of the Twentieth Century -- , Part I: Wars and their Literatures -- , 1. Occasioning Peace: Three Poems of the Anglo-Boer War -- , 2. ‘The essentially modern attitude toward war’: English Poetry of the Great War -- , 3. Debatable Ground: Freedom and Constraint in British First World War Prose Fiction -- , 4. One of Ours in Context: The American World War I Novel -- , 5. The ‘moaning of the world’ and the ‘words that bring me peace’: Modernism and the First World War -- , 6. The Great War and the Moving Image: Cinema and Memory -- , 7. Irish Writing of Insurrection and Civil War, 1916–39 -- , 8. The Poetry of the Spanish Civil War -- , 9. ‘Lucid Song’: The Poetry of the Second World War -- , 10. American Poets of World War II -- , 11. Writing after Nuremberg: The Judicial Imagination in the Age of the Trauma Trial -- , 12. The Second World War in American Fiction -- , 13. The Second World War in British Drama since 1968 -- , 14. Holocaust Testimony: Understanding and Criticism -- , 15. Holocaust Film -- , 16. O, Do Not Dream of Peace: American Poetry of the Korean War -- , 17. The Fictions of Nuclear War, from Hiroshima to Vietnam -- , 18. Cold War Films -- , 19. Britain’s Small Wars: Domesticating ‘Emergency’ -- , 20. The Disappeared and the Damned: Duplicity, Complicity and Reality in the Literature of the Pax Americana -- , 21. Vietnam Fictions -- , 22. ‘Will there be peace again?’: American and Vietnamese Poetry on the Vietnam/American War -- , 23. Poetry and the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ -- , 24. The Literature of the Falklands/Malvinas War -- , 25. ‘An Uneven Killing Field’: British Literature and the Former Yugoslavia -- , 26. Sacrifice and the Sublime since 11 September 2001 -- , Part II: Bodies, Behaviour, Cultures -- , Introduction: Bodies, Behaviour, Cultures -- , 27. War Memorials -- , 28. Unsettled Memory: A Meditation on Contested Ground -- , 29. War, Policing and Surveillance: Pat Barker and the Secret State -- , 30. American Psychiatry, World War II and the Korean War -- , 31. Pacifists and Conscientious Objectors -- , 32. The Representation of Refugees in Arthur Koestler’s Arrival and Departure and Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore -- , 33. ‘These rooms / run into each other like tunnels / leading to the underworld’: Race in War Literature -- , 34. A Spy Under Every Bed: Espionage and Popular Literature from the First World War -- , 35. Reflections on the Enemy: From Evil Nazis to Good Germans -- , Part III: Technology -- , Introduction: Technology -- , 36. Camouflage and the Re-enchantment of Warfare -- , 37. Warplane -- , 38. Monsarrat’s Corvettes and the Battle of the Atlantic -- , 39. Submarine Novels ‘After History’ -- , 40. ‘An ecstasy of fumbling’: Gas Warfare, 1914–18 and the Uses of Affect -- , 41. Paul Virilio as Twentieth-Century Military Strategist: War, Cinema and the Logistics of Perception -- , 42. Word Electric, So Finite: Radio, Poetry and the Séance in World War I -- , Part IV: Spaces -- , Introduction: Spaces -- , 43. The Trenches -- , 44. Literature of the Camps in the Second World War -- , 45. ‘That fi ghting was a long way off ’: Desert and Jungle War Poems -- , 46. Cityscape: The Bombed City in the Second World War -- , 47. The Eight-week College of the Age of Extremes: The Barracks and the Training Ground -- , Part V: Genres -- , Introduction: Genres -- , 48. Contemporary War Drama: Caryl Churchill -- , 49. Nuclear War in Science Fiction -- , 50. The Children’s War -- , 51. The Troubles with the Thriller: Northern Ireland, Political Violence and the Peace Process -- , 52. Fantasies of Complicity in the Second World War -- , 53. Visualising the Transformations of War: War and Art in the Twentieth Century -- , 54. Twentieth-Century Spy Fiction -- , 55. ‘Play Up and Play the Game!’: The Narrative of War Games -- , 56. War Correspondence -- , 57. Thinking War -- , Notes on contributors -- , Index , In English.

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DOI: 10.1515/9780748653911

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (600 p.) , 17 B/W illustrations

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ISBN: 9780748653911

Series Statement: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

Content: The first reference to literary and cultural representations of war in 20th-century English & US literature and filmCoving the two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the War on Terror, this Companion reveals the influence of modern wars on the imagination.These newly researched and innovative essays connect 'high' literary studies to the engagement of film and theatre with warfare, extensively cover the literary and cultural evaluation of the technologies of war and open the literary field to genre fiction. Divided into 5 sections: 20th-Century Wars and Their LiteraturesBodies, Behaviours, CulturesThe Cultural Impact of the Technologies of Modern WarThe Spaces of Modern WarGenres of War CultureKey FeaturesAll-new original essays commissioned from major critics and cultural historiansReflects the way war studies are currently being taught and researched: in the volume's approach, structure and breadth of coverageFor scholars: core arguments and detailed research topicsFor students: Historically grounded topic- and genre-based essays, useful forstudying the modern period and war modules...

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