Crime stories : criminalistic fantasy and the culture of crisis in Weimar Germany /
The Weimar Republic (19181933) was a crucial moment not only in German history but also in the history of both crime fiction and criminal science. This study approaches the period from a unique perspective - investigating the most notorious criminals of the time and the public's reaction to the...
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| פורמט: | Licensed eBooks |
| שפה: | אנגלית |
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New York :
Berghahn Books
2009.
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| מהדורה: | 1st ed. |
| סדרה: | Monographs in German history ;
v. 22. |
| גישה מקוונת: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt9qcpfs |
תוכן הענינים:
- Crime, detection, and German modernism
- Writing criminals : Outsiders of society and the modernist case history
- Understanding criminals : the cases of Ella Klein and Franz Biberkopf
- Seeing criminals : mass murder, mass culture, mass public
- Tracking criminals : the cases of Peter Kürten, Franz Bekert, and Emil Tischbein
- Conclusion: Criminalistic fantasy after Weimar.