Murder in Plain English
From Manifestos to Memes--Looking at Murder through the Words of Killers
This is the first book to examine murder through the written word--not only the writings of the killers themselves, but also the story of murder as told in literary fiction and the crime dramas that are now a staple of film and television. The authors--a criminologist specializing in cold cases, written evidence, and forensic science, and an anthropologist who has dealt with the signs and ciphers of organized crime and street gangs in his previous work--are widely recognized experts in this emerging specialty field. Based on extensive research and interviews with convicted murderers, the book emphasizes the often-overlooked narrative impulse…
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Weitere Autoren: Danesi, Marcel
- ISBN: 978-1-63388-253-9
- EAN: 9781633882539
- Produktnummer: 20237818
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 335 S.
- Masse: H23.8 cm x B16.4 cm x D3.5 cm 548 g
- Gewicht: 548
Über den Autor
Michael Arntfield is associate professor of literary criminology and forensic writing at Western University and a previous Fulbright Chair at Vanderbilt University. He is also a former police detective with over fifteen years' experience across multiple areas of investigative specialization, a continuing government consultant on financial crime and money laundering, and codirector of the Murder Accountability Project in Washington, DC. His true crime television series, To Catch a Killer, is currently in syndication in over a dozen countries and he is routinely sought as an expert commentator on murder and crime news by the international media. He is the author of many previous books.Marcel Danesi is professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto and an internationally-renowned semiotician, lately known for having established a new branch of the discipline, Forensic Semiotics, which aims to understand the relation of crime and criminality to culture, historical traditions, and symbolism. He has published extensively in various fields of anthropology and semiotics.
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