Mordförpackningar : Omslag, titlar och kringmaterial till svenska pocketdeckare 1998–2011

• This study examines how Swedish crime fiction has been packaged in the book trade in the early 2000s. The main material consists of 153 Swedish crime fiction paperbacks published in Sweden 1998–2011 and written by the most successful authors of crime fiction of that period. The term peritext, coined by Gérard Genette, is used to cover all aspects of books that affect the reader apart from the literary work itself. Five empirical chapters focus on five different aspects: 1) cover design; 2) titles and subtitles; 3) citations and blurbs; 4) acknowledgements; and 5) author presentations, extra material and advertising. It is shown that the packaging of crime fiction is crucial when it comes to genre formation and author branding. Among the results are how these “murder packages” have become increasingly elaborated over time, that male and female writers of crime fiction have been presented in distinctly different ways, and how the reliability and realism of a story often is emphasized in the peritext.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Literary Studies (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Swedish crime fiction

book history

sociology of literature

publishing studies

book covers

book trade

pretext

Svenska deckare

bokhistoria

litteratursociologi

förlagsstudier

bokomslag

bokmarknad

paratext

Literature

Litteraturvetenskap

Publikations- och innehållstyp

vet (ämneskategori)

bok (ämneskategori)