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'This paper describes the author's current and past involvement in reading crime fiction, as a
way of introducing 0 project intended to investigate how people communicate, on what terms
and why, about their crime·reading practices. Astudy involving members of the Melbourne
based readership network, Sisters in Crime, demonstrates that the discourses of value that
circulate about crime fiction have a long history and can be related to debates about mass
culture and consumerism circulating from the mid·nineteenth century anwards-{[ebates which
the author relates to her own experience as a graduate and teacher of English literature' (Author's abstract).
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Better than Literature : Discourses of Value and Reading Crime
Australian Journal of Communication
Australian Journal of Communication
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