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, 2014 In this lighthearted piece of mathematical fiction, the heroine/detective is a mathematician who traps her villain with a mathematician\u27s insight, subtlety, and ...
Haas, Robert
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Parodia, intertextualidad y sátira en la narrativa policial de Lorenzo Lunar Cardedo
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2020 Detective fiction as parodic reformulation of genre’s defining patterns has a long history in the Latin American tradition: Borges, Bioy Casares, Soriano, Levrero, Ibargüengoitia, etc.
Jesús Gómez-de-Tejada
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JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2014 Translating Agatha Christie's first detective novels was a challenge for the German-language translators and publishers involved. Christie was first translated into German in 1927 by Irene Kafka. However, the three Christie novels she translated were all
Marjolijn Storm
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Social conflict in the contemporary French roman noir [PDF]
, 2015 Conflict is by definition at the heart of the crime novel: most evidently in the usually violent conflict between victim and perpetrator but also in a more abstract, though equally important, way in the conflict between the perpetrator and the social ...
Kimyongür, Angela
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Realistic Man, Fantasy Policeman: The Longevity of Ruth Rendell's Reginald Wexford [PDF]
, 2016 Publisher does not allow open access until after ...
Schnabel, Jennifer
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Transatlantica, 2013 Some high fantasy novels borrow a certain number of elements from detective fiction and more precisely from the American roman noir. This recent trend, developed since the 1990s in European as well as American high fantasy, led to the coining of the ...
Catherine Magalhaes
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A Japanese-American Sam Spade: The Metaphysical Detective in Death in Little Tokyo, by Dale Furutani
American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2017 The aim of this essay is to discuss the legacy of the roman noir in contemporary detective fiction produced outside the hegemonic center of power, here represented by the novel Death in Little Tokyo (1996), written by Japanese-American author Dale ...
Portilho Carla
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Sillages Critiques, 2015 The expression detective play is not a valid critical category. It can at best be considered as an unfortunate collocation, derived from the canonical genre that is the detective novel.
Aloysia Rousseau
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Lost in space, lost in himself: Paul Auster’s Ghosts and the postmodern city
Crossroads, 2020 Ghosts, the second part of Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy, is generically classified as anti-detective fiction. The dominant setting of the novel, the urban space of New York and the observatory apartment located in it, is endowed with postmodern ...
Julia Kula
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Le Nouveau Roman et le roman policier : éloge ou parodie ?
Itinéraires, 2015 The detective story was an object of fascination for the New Novelists. The list of their works appropriating crime fiction themes, characters or narrative structure is a long one, and includes texts by Robbe-Grillet, Simon, Pinget and Butor.
Simon Kemp
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