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Cahiers Victoriens et EdouardiensThis is a preprint draft of a contribution to the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, ed. Robert Spoo and Simon Stern (London: Elgar, 2025), 149-51. To quote or cite, please consult the published version.] [DOI: https://www.elgaronline.com/display/book/9781803925912/ch39.xml] Abstract: Detective fiction has been one of the most fruitful ...
Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay
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The Semiotic Background of the Ineffective Investigation in the Weird Detective Story [PDF]
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica, 2023 The classical detective story is based on a teleological certainty offered by the narrative. In these stories, the detective successfully solves the crime, and the lawful order is restored in an assuring manner, so the closure of the narrative ...
Norbert Gyuris
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Russian Detective Studies in the First Half of the 20th Century [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2022 The article examines the works of Russian literary critics of the first half of the 20th century, such as K. Chukovsky, V. Bryusov, V. Shklovsky, E. Lann, N. Berkovsky, E. Vinaver, S. Eisenstein.
Petr A. Moiseev
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Jurnal Poetika, 2023 There has been a longstanding debate about the origin of detective fiction, with most recognizing Poe as its pioneer. However, there remains a need to comprehensively analyze the literary influence that spans across generations in detective fiction. This
Adiba Qonita Zahroh
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Modiano’s detective: In search of lost memory
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2022 This article argues that Patrick Modiano’s The Black Notebook (2003) is influenced by and, at the same time, critically revises crime fiction tropes. Many researchers have identified and discussed Modiano’s fascination with memory and identity (Wardi ...
Rhys Tyers
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Death of a Great Detective : New Genres of Detective Fiction in 1960s Japan and 1980s China [PDF]
Gwagyeong Ilboneo Munhak Yeongu, 2015 Western classic detective fiction was introduced and translated into Japan and China almost simultaneously and inspired both Japanese and Chinese novelists to create fiction with individual, prodigious detectives as their leading roles, which was not too
Zhixi YIN
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Humanities, 2023 This paper explores the shifting position of “readers” and “writers” within serialized works by Japanese detective fiction author Edogawa Rampo. The essay focuses on two works published at the end of the 1920s and early 1930s: the novella “Beast in the ...
Shoko Komatsu, Eric Siercks
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[sic], 2020 Three decades after American author Edgar Allan Poe laid down the foundations for the detective genre in the 1840s with his “tales of ratiocination,” native detective stories began to appear on Russian literary scene.
Maja Pandžić
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Precedent Allusions in the Structure of the English Detective Image [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2022 Detective discourse abounds in linguistic units with cultural value including precedent phenomena that realize different functions and thus, are employed to achieve particular goals.
Elena E. Kusaeva
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The Comfort of Crime: The Appeal of Formulaic Fiction during the Pandemic
Litteraria Copernicana, 2021 2020 was taxing, and one of the comforting ways of dealing with the uncertainty the COVID-19 pandemic has brought was reading. It seems hardly surprising that the British turned to crime fiction, which they not only avidly consume but also successfully ...
Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
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