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Court Case Fiction and Detective Fiction
2018One of the fundamental themes of the world’s literature is crime and punishment. The Chinese traditional “court case fiction” (gong’an fiction) and detective fiction originating from the West largely bear such a theme, often with such a basic structure of “committing crime, investigating and analyzing the case, trial, and conviction.” Chinese court ...
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What Is The Appeal Of Detective Fiction?
1981A brief look at what attracts the reader to the detective genre.
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2000
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction M.Swales Poe and the Beautiful Segar Girl J.Skvorecky Body Language: A Study of Death and Gender in Crime Fiction S.Dunant Fascination and Nausea: Finding Our the Hard-Boiled Way D.Trotter The Writers who Knew Too Much: Populism and Paradox in Detective Fiction's Golden Age D.Glover 'Sherlock's ...
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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction M.Swales Poe and the Beautiful Segar Girl J.Skvorecky Body Language: A Study of Death and Gender in Crime Fiction S.Dunant Fascination and Nausea: Finding Our the Hard-Boiled Way D.Trotter The Writers who Knew Too Much: Populism and Paradox in Detective Fiction's Golden Age D.Glover 'Sherlock's ...
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The Journal of Value Inquiry, 1983
“And where are you going next?” he asked him over his shoulder. “Birmingham,” answered the actor, puffing a cigarette. “Didn’t I tell you I was a Futurist? I really do believe in those things if I believe in anything. Change, bustle and new things every morning. I am going to Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Hull, Huddersfield, Glasgow, Chicago— in short,
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“And where are you going next?” he asked him over his shoulder. “Birmingham,” answered the actor, puffing a cigarette. “Didn’t I tell you I was a Futurist? I really do believe in those things if I believe in anything. Change, bustle and new things every morning. I am going to Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Hull, Huddersfield, Glasgow, Chicago— in short,
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Poetics Today, 2010
This essay explores closure in the detective story, a genre that is generally recognized as a paradigm case of strong closure and thus has a special claim to notice in a general study of narrative closure. The essay starts by outlining a theoretical model of narrative closure based on a synthesis of Barbara Herrnstein Smith's approach to the problem of
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This essay explores closure in the detective story, a genre that is generally recognized as a paradigm case of strong closure and thus has a special claim to notice in a general study of narrative closure. The essay starts by outlining a theoretical model of narrative closure based on a synthesis of Barbara Herrnstein Smith's approach to the problem of
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Detective Fiction and the Body
2009CS: It’s a very great pleasure to be here in conversation with you. We’ve agreed that we’ll talk in particular about the focus on the murdered body in your fiction, and especially about the troubling idea of murder as art form. We’ll also consider issues about description and perspective, and questions about morality.
P. D. James, Corinne Saunders
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Literature Compass, 2008
Abstract This essay traces the principal currents in scholarship on Victorian detective fiction over the last century. Starting with a survey of the key critical perspectives established in the first half of the twentieth century, it moves into a more detailed discussion of prominent trends since the turn of the millennium.
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Abstract This essay traces the principal currents in scholarship on Victorian detective fiction over the last century. Starting with a survey of the key critical perspectives established in the first half of the twentieth century, it moves into a more detailed discussion of prominent trends since the turn of the millennium.
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1991
The subtitle of this book has several purposes, but the first is to evoke a contrast between the world of high literature, as exemplified by Henry James’s short story ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, and a genre bent on disfiguring the literary drawing-room with corpses.
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The subtitle of this book has several purposes, but the first is to evoke a contrast between the world of high literature, as exemplified by Henry James’s short story ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, and a genre bent on disfiguring the literary drawing-room with corpses.
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2005
Abstract The Hollow Man is not a novel that seeks to destabilize our sense of the outside world. Although the admission that ‘we’re in a detective story’ might strike us as distinctly postmodern, it is unlikely that readers of the mid-1930s would have seen Carr’s mischievous metafictional move as a challenge to their expectations about ...
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Abstract The Hollow Man is not a novel that seeks to destabilize our sense of the outside world. Although the admission that ‘we’re in a detective story’ might strike us as distinctly postmodern, it is unlikely that readers of the mid-1930s would have seen Carr’s mischievous metafictional move as a challenge to their expectations about ...
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