TY  - BOOK
AU  - Babbar,Anjili
TI  - Finders: justice, faith, and identity in Irish crime fiction 
T2  - Irish Studies
SN  - 9780815655886
AV  - PR8807.D48 B33 2023
U1  - 823/.0872099415 23/eng/20230210
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Syracuse
PB  - Syracuse University Press
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, Irish (English)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Justice in literature
KW  - Faith in literature
KW  - Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
KW  - Justice dans la litt�erature
KW  - Foi dans la litt�erature
KW  - Identit�e dans la litt�erature
KW  - fast
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Critiques litt�eraires
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
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