L'effetto di Montalbano sui flussi turistici nei luoghi letterari e televisivi

Betta, Paolo Di

doi:10.3280/ed2015-002003

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“…Similarly, in Italy, the significant increase in tourist flux to the province of Agrigento -where the Montalbano television series was shot -has even led tourism sciences to coin the expression ''Montalbano effect'' (Di Betta, 2015;Ponton & Asero, 2015). Unlike Sherlock Holmes', however, the author's and the character's houses are not the only tourist attractions: the entire territory narrated in the fiction continues to capture the interest of the public.…”

Section: Conclusion: the Crime Place As Production Of Localitymentioning

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“…Montalbán, Camilleri and Izzo have been selected as case studies because of their respective relevance to Spanish, Italian and French readerships, alongside their recognition as milestone authors in crime fiction historiography. Their popularity at international level has crossed the boundaries of the literary sphere, making them prime representatives of the places where their novels lure tourism (Di Betta, 2015;Ponton & Asero, 2015;Redondo, 2017;Rosemberg & Troin, 2017).…”

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Place matters: geographical context, place belonging and the production of locality in Mediterranean Noirs

Gabellieri

2021

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Scholars have been investigating detective stories and crime fiction mostly as literary works reflecting the societies that produced them and the movement from modernism to postmodernism. However, these genres have generally been neglected by literary geographers. In the attempt to fill such an epistemological vacuum, this paper examines and compare the function and importance of geography in both classic and late 20th century detective stories. Arthur Conan Doyle’s and Agatha Christie’s detective stories are compared to Mediterranean noir books by Manuel Montalbán, Andrea Camilleri and Jean Claude Izzo. While space is shown to be at the center of the investigations in the former two authors, the latter rather focus on place, that is space invested by the authors with meaning and feelings of identity and belonging. From this perspective, the article argues that detective investigations have become a narrative medium allowing the readership to explore the writer’s representation/construction of his own territorial context, or place-setting, which functions as a co-protagonist of the novel. In conclusion, the paper suggests that the emerging role of place in some of the later popular crime fiction can be interpreted as the result of writer’s sentiment of belonging and, according to Appadurai’s theory, as a literary and geographical discourse aimed at the production of locality.

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confidence: 99%