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This thesis studies a period of historical transition (1945-1950) and proposes to use scandal as a critical tool to account for the ambiguity of the immediate post-war period in literature. As set out in pragmatic sociology, scandal is understood to involve a test to the stabili…

The career path of African American novelist Chester Himes is often characterised as a u-turn. Himes grew to recognition in the 1940s as a writer of the Popular Front, and a pioneer of the era's black 'protest' fiction. However, after falling out of domestic favour in the early …

Although extremely popular in diverse national literatures, the police procedural--a novel in which a sympathetic cop-hero uses real-world forensic techniques to investigate a believable crime--has appeared in Arabic only in Morocco. In this dissertation, the first in any langua…

Film noir started in the early 1940s and has continued to today with adaptations that reflect modern society. The style of film noir, influenced from German expressionism, has stayed consistent with its stark shadows and tilted camera angles. While film noir divulges into multip…

This dissertation analyzes contemporary Italian crime fiction’s success, relating it to the penal system’s growing centrality in the Italian (and global) political, social, and cultural scene. Although crime literature’s great popularity is commonly accepted as a fact, literary …