Crime Sites: Black and Yellow Investigations
The course includes a preliminary section dedicated to the study of the detective novel and noir; moreover, a comparative study of texts from various linguistic and literary areas will privilege the analysis of spaces and characters, also multimedia prospective.

NOVELS to read and study:
1.C.Lucarelli,Intrigo italiano,Einaudi oppure
Fruttero e Lucentini, La donna della domenica, Mondadori;
2.J.C.Izzo, Chourmo (Chourmo, ediz. E/O)
3.F.G.Ledesma,Una novela de barrío (Mistero di strada, Giano ed .);
4.C.Dexter, The Riddle of the Third Mile (Il Mistero Del Terzo Miglio, Sellerio) oppure
R. Chandler, The Little Sister (La sorellina, Feltrinelli)
Critical essays:
A.Y.Reuter, Il romanzo poliziesco, Armando;
B.Il senso dello spazio, a c. di F.Sorrentino, Armando;
C.G. Ferraro, Teorie della narrazione, Carocci;
D.Photocopied essays.

Recommended for further information:
AA.VV., Splendori e misteri del romanzo poliziesco, B.Mondadori
B.Pezzotti, The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press;
Italian Crime Fiction, ed. by G. Pieri,University of Wales Press, Cardiff;
L.Silvestri, Cercando la via, Bulzoni;
D.Papotti,F.Tomasi, La geografia del racconto, Peter Lang;
G.Digovic, Barcellona in giallo, Pollena Trocchia, Nonsoloparole, 2003.