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Detective fiction in Cuban society and culture. [PDF]
, 2000 PhDThe object of this thesis is to reach towards an understanding of Cuban society through a study of its detective fiction and more particularly contemporary Cuban society through the novels of the author and critic, Leonardo Padura Fuentes.
Wilkinson, Stephen
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Theology in suspense : how the detective fiction of P.D. James provokes theological thought [PDF]
, 2012 Electronic redacted version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holderThe following dissertation argues that the detective fiction of P.D. James provokes her readers to think theologically.
Sharkey, Jo Ann
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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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Emilio De Marchi’s Novel “The Priest’s Hat”: the Origins of Italian Giallo [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2022 The paper examines Emilio De Marchi’s novel “The priest’s hat” (1888) as a precursor of detective fiction in Italy. Influenced by Dostoevsky and the French tradition (Gaborio) with its attention to characters’ psychology, De Marchi tells the story of ...
Yulia S. Patronnikova
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Tigers, Criminals, Rogues : Animality in Dickens’ Detective Fiction
, 2022 This essay addresses Dickens’ use of animals in his detective fiction. For Dickens, the detective is the one who can read the signs of the animal which the criminal attempts to dissimulate.
Whiteley, Giles,
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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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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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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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