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Commemorating Forgetting: 1922 and Golden Age Detective Fiction
, 2022 Detective fiction of the 1920s and 1930s, the genre’s “Golden Age,” is concerned with a desire to mitigate the moral injustices of the war, symbolized by the solution of the crime and the resolution of the narrative.
Gildersleeve, Jessica
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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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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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Development of Detective Fiction
International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research, 2023 Detection is not uncommon for human beings. Since the very beginning, it has been connected to their origin. All the discoveries are the result of human beings’ detection. The field of literature is also not untouched by it. Though the elements of detection have been evident in the literary pieces since the origin of literature, but the concrete ...
Yasmeen Ara -, Pratibha Gupta -
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“Detecting” the Specters of Chicano/a Past in Lucha Corpi’s “Eulogy for a Brown Angel”
RSA Journal, 2021 Since its first affirmation at the end of the nineteenth century, the detective genre has been highly debated: on the one hand it represented a very popular genre, but on the other hand it has always been considered “inferior,” receiving scant academic ...
Fabiola Mazzola
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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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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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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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The End of Resolution? Reflections on the Ethics of Closure in Don DeLillo's Detective Plots [PDF]
, 2010 This discussion of Don DeLillo's novels Libra and Mao II examines the ethical implications of DeLillo’s refusal to provide narrative closures in his use of and critical engagement with Victorian detective novels and their closural ...
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