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Pollution and Haunted Eco‐Histories: Silent Hill and Silent Horrors in Centralia, Pennsylvania
Popular Culture Review, Volume 37, Issue 2, December 2026.ABSTRACT Centralia is a former mining town and borough in Northeastern Pennsylvania, whose population has been steadily declining since the Mine Fire of 1962—a fire that still burns today. The “horrors” of living in Centralia are reflected in horror media set in postindustrial mining towns like Silent Hill.
Maz Jardon
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Hardboiled Feminism: Laura as an Interrogation of the Detective Genre
, 2017 Laura holds a privileged place in detective fiction and film noir, yet Vera Caspary’s novel has received little critical attention. This paper asserts that Caspary’s novel, written within a context of a hypermasculine culture, constitutes a significant ...
Brian Matzke
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DETECTIVE PATTERNS IN THE PALE BLUE EYES (2022) FILM
SaksamaThis study explores the application of John G. Cawelti's classic detective formula in the film The Pale Blue Eye (2022), which is an adaptation of Louis Bayard's 2003 novel.
Syabrina Sri Sulistyani +1 more
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Crime and Detection in a Defective World: The Detective Fictions of Borges and Dürrenmatt
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1978 The debt of contemporary writers to detective fiction, both in theme and technique, has been noted in recent criticism. However, studies of a comparative nature are virtually nonexistent.
Tamara Holzapfel
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Genre-thematic and pragmatic peculiarities of detective stories [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2019 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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“Nordic (Scandinavian) Noir” vs Scandinavian Detective: a Debatable Aspect of Study
Научный диалог, 2023 The phenomenon of “Nordic (Scandinavian) noir”, which has formed in the literature of Northern Europe in the last two decades, is studied. The author considers the works of Swedish, Danish, Norwegian prose writers and proves the insufficient legitimacy ...
O. Yu. Osmukhina
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The enregisterment and social meaning of fresas on the Texas border
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.Abstract The fresa characterological figure is widely recognizable in Mexico and has been considered to be performable through a variety of semiotic markers. By viewing fresas as a meta‐sign, their performance consists of three main behavioral practices: linguistic behavior, physical appearance, and inhabited space.
Natalie Rangel
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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 ...
Schweighauser, Philipp +3 more
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Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 4, October 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the aesthetic praxis of Argentine author and filmmaker César González as an example of anti‐racist art that challenges the often‐sidelined racism faced by residents of poor neighbourhoods (known as villeros), who are frequently presented as Argentina's Other.
Ignacio Aguiló, Ana Vivaldi
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Společensko-kritické aspekty české metafyzické detektivky
Bohemica Litteraria, 2019 The metaphysical detective novel is a non-forged genre in the Czech literary world. In this short study, therefore, we try to introduce the specifics of this genre briefly, then we deal with its different varieties presenting a socio-critical overlap ...
Michaela Paučo
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