Finders : justice, faith, and identity in Irish crime fiction /
Babbar, Anjili,
Finders : justice, faith, and identity in Irish crime fiction / Anjili Babbar. - First edition. - 1 online resource (ix, 273 pages). - Irish Studies . - Irish studies. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Irish detectives are idiosyncratic characters, conforming neither to obsolete, stereotypical crime fiction devices nor to sentimentalized notions of Irishness engendered by the American imagination and popular culture representations. As these detectives attempt to reconcile and evaluate standards of religious and legal justice, assessing and ranking their value in a search for absolutes to incorporate in the basis of their own, individual systems, Irish noir makes use of heritage and genre in the establishment of a new approach: one which considers what it means to be both an individual and the product of social systems, both acculturated and globalized, both affected by the past and assuming a role in progress, both aware of imperfections of the self and the world and desirous of having a positive impact"--
9780815655886 0815655886
22573/cats919552 JSTOR
2022041727
Detective and mystery stories, Irish (English)--History and criticism.
Justice in literature.
Faith in literature.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Justice dans la litt�erature.
Foi dans la litt�erature.
Identit�e dans la litt�erature.
Detective and mystery stories, Irish (English)
Faith in literature
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
Justice in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques litt�eraires.
PR8807.D48 / B33 2023
823/.0872099415
Finders : justice, faith, and identity in Irish crime fiction / Anjili Babbar. - First edition. - 1 online resource (ix, 273 pages). - Irish Studies . - Irish studies. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Irish detectives are idiosyncratic characters, conforming neither to obsolete, stereotypical crime fiction devices nor to sentimentalized notions of Irishness engendered by the American imagination and popular culture representations. As these detectives attempt to reconcile and evaluate standards of religious and legal justice, assessing and ranking their value in a search for absolutes to incorporate in the basis of their own, individual systems, Irish noir makes use of heritage and genre in the establishment of a new approach: one which considers what it means to be both an individual and the product of social systems, both acculturated and globalized, both affected by the past and assuming a role in progress, both aware of imperfections of the self and the world and desirous of having a positive impact"--
9780815655886 0815655886
22573/cats919552 JSTOR
2022041727
Detective and mystery stories, Irish (English)--History and criticism.
Justice in literature.
Faith in literature.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Justice dans la litt�erature.
Foi dans la litt�erature.
Identit�e dans la litt�erature.
Detective and mystery stories, Irish (English)
Faith in literature
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
Justice in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques litt�eraires.
PR8807.D48 / B33 2023
823/.0872099415