Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Crime fiction frequently takes the real and imaginary geography of islands as its setting and subject.Through a reading of selected novels by Anne Zouroudi, Jeffrey Siger, and Paul Johnston, this article looks at ways in which ideas about 'islandness' operate in contemporary English-language crime fiction set in the Aegean Sea.Specifically, it uses geocriticism and spatial literary studies to explore the ways non-textual paratext-in particular covers and maps-work alongside a text, or narrative, to capitalize on the lure of islands.
Source: Island Studies Journal
DOI: 10.24043/isj.85
Author: Ralph Crane
Institutions: University of Tasmania, University of Prince Edward Island
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2944608294