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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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The Conventions of Detective Fiction, or Why We Like Detective Novels: Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
Anafora, 2018 Detective fiction has been immensely popular among readers for decades. This paper answers the questions of who the readers of this genre are and what makes detective stories so attractive for them. The first part of the paper discusses why the so-called
Sanja Matković
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Noir Affect in Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City [PDF]
Caietele Echinox, 2022 Taking its cue from Christopher Breu and Elizabeth A. Hatmaker’s rethinking of noir affect as a descriptor of detective fiction, this paper contributes to the discussion of South African writer Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City as a narrative that both harnesses ...
Carmen Borbély
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Humanities, 2022 Ora Shem-Ur’s detective series starring Ali Honigsberg established her as one of the early female pioneers in the new wave of Israeli detective fiction writers.
Anat Koplowitz-Breier
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Detective Fiction in a Post-Truth World: Eva Rossmann’s Patrioten
Humanities, 2020 Detective fiction is known as a genre that is concerned with revealing truths, both in the fictional world of the text as well as in the society after which it is patterned.
Anita McChesney
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Social and Psychological Contexts of the Soviet Period in Latvian Detective Novels
Филологический класс, 2021 Peculiarities of Soviet ideology mean that literary works should follow a certain canon which reflects a positive image of Soviet society. In search of possibilities to reflect the diversity and contradictions of this society, many writers chose to ...
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THE WOMEN DETECTIVES IN THE DETECTIVE LITERATURE: ESRA TÜRKEKUL’S KAPALIÇARŞI CİNAYETİ NOVEL /POLİSİYE EDEBİYATTA KADIN DEDEKTİFLER: ESRA TÜRKEKUL’UN KAPALIÇARŞI CİNAYETİ KİTABI [PDF]
Folklor/Edebiyat, 2018 As Mandel (1996) argues, there appears, in terms of detective character, an attempt to rebuild the rationality by restoring the deflected order in the classic detective novel, which emerged in the 19th. century.
Selin Önen
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The Case of Mór Jókai and the Detective Story
Hungarian Cultural Studies, 2017 While from the viewpoint of typology it is often stated that the genre of detective fiction originated with the work of Edgar Allan Poe, this statement can be challenged from the standpoint of literary or reception history.
Péter Hajdu
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Deduction and Geography in Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2015 At first sight, detective fiction and geography appear as two opposing fields of study. Geography relies on tangible scientific information while detective novels create mysteries around whodunnits, notably with Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes adventures ...
Andréas Pichler
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Signs and Roots. On Crímenes y Jardines (2013) by Pablo De Santis [PDF]
, 2018 Proponemos una lectura sobre los modos en que el género policial se presenta y representa en la novela Crímenes y jardines (2013) de Pablo De Santis. Para esto, planteamos cuatro ejes de discusión.
Maltz, Hernán Joel
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