Teaching Crime Fiction

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Beyer, Charlotte (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Teaching the New English
• Subjects: Fiction.; Literature-Philosophy.; Literary Theory.

More than perhaps any other genre, crime fiction invites debate over the role of popular fiction in English studies. This book offers lively original essays on teaching crime fiction written by experienced British and international scholar teachers, providing vital insight into this diverse genre th...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction - "Crime Fiction" - Charlotte Beyer
• 2. "Devising crime fiction modules" - Rebecca Martin
• 3. "Plots and devices" - Malcah Effron
• 4. "Teaching Crime fiction and Gender" - Maureen Reddy
• 5. "Teaching American Detective Fiction in the Contemporary Classroom" - Nicole Kenley
• 6. "Teaching Postcolonial crime fiction" - Sam Naidu
• 7. "To Cut a Long Story Short: Teaching the Crime Short Story": Charlotte Beyer
• 8. "Studies in Green: Ecological Crime Fiction" - Samantha Walton
• 9."Teaching Crime Fiction and Film" - Sian Harris
• 10. "Crime writing, language and stylistics" - Christina Gregoriou
• 11. "The Crime Novelist as Teacher" - Paul Johnston
• 12. "Teaching Crime Fiction Criticism" - Rosemary Erickson Johnsen
• 12. "Teaching Contemporary U.S. Crime Fiction Through the 'War on Drugs': A Postgraduate Case Study" - Andrew Pepper.