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An Introduction to the Police Procedural: A Subgenre of Detective Genre

Humaniora, 2019
Based on a library research, this paper aims at introducing the police procedural as a subgenre of detective genre. To achieve the aim, this paper elaborately discusses three definitions of the police procedural.
Fitria Akhmerti Primasita, Heddy Shri Ahimsa-Putra   +1 more
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Russian Detective Studies in the First Half of the 20th Century [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2022
The article examines the works of Russian literary critics of the first half of the 20th century, such as K. Chukovsky, V. Bryusov, V. Shklovsky, E. Lann, N. Berkovsky, E. Vinaver, S. Eisenstein.
Petr A. Moiseev
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A Distinctive Detective Novel: The Deconstruction of Classic Detective Fiction in Haberci Çocuk Cinayetleri

İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi, 2021
This study is a discussion from a postfeminist perspective of the narrative strategies used by Perihan Mağden in the detective novel Haberci Çocuk Cinayetleri.
Merve Esra Özgürbüz
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Features of the ironic detective in Daniel Pennac’s novel The Scapegoat [PDF]

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2023
Ironic detective is a relatively new genre in literature. Its development dates back to the middle of the twentieth century and continues up to the present days. The final crystallization of the genre is taking place in our time.
Hanna Aleksandrova
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MYSTERIES UNRESOLVED: DETECTIVE FICTION AND PARODY IN THOMAS PYNCHON’S THE CRYING OF LOT 49 AND INHERENT VICE

İmgelem, 2023
Thomas Pynchon’s novels are noted for their postmodernist characteristics. Some of his novels also include certain features of detective fiction. In The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), the focus of Oedipa –a housewife whose name alludes to Oedipus of Sophocles—
Ahmet Koç
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Subversion of the Image of the Hard-boiled Gumshoe in Richard Brautigan’s Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942

Critical Literary Studies, 2023
The present article aims to analyze Richard Brautigan’s Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942 (1977) in the light of the genre of Metaphysical Detective Story.
Ramtin Ebrahimi, Alireza Farahbakhsh
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Agatha Christie’s Poirot novels as fairy tales: Two case studies

Literator, 2021
The popularity of detective stories may result from the attraction of the hero, the entertaining thrill of the plot or the comforting power of the overall message which promises that evil will be defeated in the end: there is always someone able to fight
Lucyna Harmon
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DETECTIVE STORY: TO THE PROBLEM OF VARIABILITY OF THE MAIN EVENT AND CHARACTERS (BY THE CASE OF A. SARAKHOV’S STORIES)

Кавказология, 2019
The article discusses aspects of the development of detective prose, necessary for understanding the status of a detective in Kabardian literature. The functionality of stereotypes of perception and «memory of the genre» is briefly presented, which ...
I. A. KAZHAROVA
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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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“SOMEONE ELSE”: THE GENRE PARADIGM OF DETECTIVES BY GUILLAUME MUSSO [PDF]

Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology
The article explores the genre paradigm of the novels by Guillaume Musso, the most popular author of unique detective novels in today’s France, which have already been translated into more than forty languages but have not yet been studied by literary ...
Olga L. Kalashnikova
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