Global Crime Narratives (ENGL40025) // Further information

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    Prescribed texts

    Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue, ‘The Mystery of Marie Roget’ and ‘The Purloined Letter’, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1845) 

    A Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four (1890)

    Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) 

    Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley (1955)

    Alfred Hitchcock (dir.), Psycho (1960) – film

    Michel Foucault, I, Pierre Rivière, having slaughtered my mother, my sister and my brother… A case of parricide in the 19th century (1975)

    Thomas Harris, Red Dragon (1981) and David Slade (dir.), Hannibal (2013-14) – TV series

    Haruki Murakami, Underground (1997-98)

    Mark Brandon Read, Chopper: From the Inside (1991); and David Michod (dir), Animal Kingdom (2010) – film

    Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005)

    Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)

    Chloe Hooper, The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008)

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