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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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Civilian Detective Doctrine in the 1930s and its Transmission to the Military Police in 1940-42 [PDF]
, 2014 The Special Investigation Branch (SIB) of the Royal Military Police (RMP) was formed in 1940, after the military authorities became concerned at the widespread theft of military stores by members of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), and following a ...
Moore, Colin +6 more
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ImagesIn 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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“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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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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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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Rassegna Iberistica, 2018 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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Toxic utopia: Unseen ideology and “Le Politique” in China Miéville's The City & The City
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract What if ideology were not just hidden—but aesthetic? This article reads China Miéville's The City & The City not as a metaphor for division, but as a speculative blueprint for how politics operates through enforced invisibility. By threading Derrida's Absolute Other and Rancière's le politique through Miéville's uncanny urban layering, we ...
Bo Kampmann Walther, Rune Graulund
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Missing Persons: Cherokee's Parrot and Chatterton's Poet
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1999 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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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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