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Realistic Man, Fantasy Policeman: The Longevity of Ruth Rendell's Reginald Wexford [PDF]
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Schnabel, Jennifer
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Social and Psychological Contexts of the Soviet Period in Latvian Detective Novels
Peculiarities of Soviet ideology mean that literary works should follow a certain canon which reflects a positive image of Soviet society. In search of possibilities to reflect the diversity and contradictions of this society, many writers chose to ...
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Parodia, intertextualidad y sátira en la narrativa policial de Lorenzo Lunar Cardedo
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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GRAMMAR OF THE DETECTIVE GENRE
The paper describes the grammar of the detective genre. This is done on the basis of formalist-structuralist poetics, by extracting the actants of detective syntax. It involves: the plot, enigma, secret, solution, crime, and the detective. The plot is determined both on the basis of the main stages of the detective narrative (crime, investigation ...
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In this case study of the historical Chinese detective game Murders on the Yangtze River, the authors explore the genre of detective games. The first part of this essay briefly introduces the game and the genre structures of detective games.
Aleksandra Julia Kaniuk +1 more
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This paper analyses intertextuality between two novels, Juan José Saer’s La pesquisa and Ricardo Piglia’s Blanco nocturno, in the context of detective fiction, that both writers explore in their narrative.
Macedo Rodriguez, Alfonso
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Missing Persons: Cherokee's Parrot and Chatterton's Poet
This essay explores the problematic nature of selfhood in the detective genre as established by Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) and most recently reformulated in two metaphysical detective novels, Jean Echenoz's Cherokee (1983) and
Leonard R. Koos
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Genre-thematic and pragmatic peculiarities of detective stories [PDF]
The article studies genre-thematic and communicative-pragmatic peculiarities of modern German detective stories, claims their popularity as mass literature works, specifies the narrative method. The focus is on linguopragmatic analysis of story titles as
Serebriakova Svetlana V. +1 more
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Genre-specific Error Detection with Multimodal Feedback [PDF]
A purpose-built online error detection tool was developed to provide genre-specific corpus-based feedback on errors occurring in draft research articles and graduation theses. The primary envisaged users were computer science majors studying at a public university in Japan.
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Striving for autonomy : representative female characters in the detective novels of P. D. James : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand [PDF]
Representative female characters from several of P D James's detective novels are used to exemplify the changes in women's position in society during the four decades (from the early 1960s to the late 1990s) which span James's publishing career and which
Greenwood, Irene
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