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A Few Strange Events Told on Baker Street - Part 2 [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2009 The study analyses composition, motifs and stylistic structure of Doyle´s Holmes detective stories. The author of the study tries to determine their value in the context of their development within transformations of the detective genre.
Tomáš Horváth
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The Last Word: The Prattling, Tattling Parrots of Popular Lore
The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 58, Issue 6, Page 290-299, December 2025.ABSTRACT Garrulous parrots appear in a wide array of pop culture forms—from urban legends, television sitcoms, and advertising, to comics, pulp detective fiction, and jokes (naming a few). The birds can be helpful, clever agents; but more often they are mischief makers challenging social norms. Among the pandemonium of parrots in expressive culture, we
Greg Kelley
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[sic], 2020 Three decades after American author Edgar Allan Poe laid down the foundations for the detective genre in the 1840s with his “tales of ratiocination,” native detective stories began to appear on Russian literary scene.
Maja Pandžić
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ATMOSFEAR: Horror of nature and the nature of horror in Algernon Blackwood
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 6, Page 553-577, December 2025.Abstract The impact that the stories of Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951) have had on the literature of the uncanny can hardly be overestimated. However, there is almost no research on Blackwood's life and work. Against the background of a presentation of themes and motifs of Blackwood's narrative œuvre, this article develops a characteristic of his ...
Dominic Angeloch
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Vilikovský´s Search for the Reality: Photography and a Bitter Taste of the Real [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2017 The paper interprets the radical way of rewriting the detective fiction in the short story by Pavel Vilikovský Celkový pohľad na Máriu B. (The Overall View of Maria B., 1968) and in his novel Prvá veta spánku (The First Sentence of Sleep, 1983).
Tomáš Horváth
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The English photoekphrastic detective novel of the second half of the 20th century (A. Christie, T. Findlеy): Tradition and innovation [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Филология, ЖурналистикаThe article examines the development of such a genre variety as the photoeкphrastic detective, embracing the period of the 1950s to the 1980s of the 20th century.
Poluektova, Tatyana Anatolievna
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The Idea of Education in Golden Age Detective Fiction
Copyright 2025. Table of contents. Introduction 1. Learning in the Age of Sleuthing 2. Detective as learner and teacher 3. The learning spaces of Golden Age Detective Fiction 4. The limits of detective learning 5.
Dalrymple, R, Green, A
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Edgar Allan Poe and a Detective Story: A New Configuration of the Old One and Its Variations [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2005 In the study we analyse Poe’s „tales of ratiocination“, inaugurating a detective genre. No one of the Poe’s short stories as a whole fully fits with an „ ideal“ model of a detective story „according to the rules“, but particular short stories are ...
Tomáš Horváth
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LEONARDO PADURA FUENTES Y SU DETECTIVE NOSTÁLGICO
Revista Chilena de Literatura, 2009 Este artículo inserta las novelas policiales del conocido autor cubano Leonardo Padura Fuentes en la tradición tanto del género policial en general como del cubano en especial.
Clemens A Franken K
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O estranho caso do romance policial na literatura lusófona
Studia Iberystyczne, 2014 THE STRANGE CASE OF THE DETECTIVE NOVEL IN PORTUGUESE‑SPEAKING LITERATURE Today the detective novel has freed itself for good from being considered as marginal literature.
Pierre‑Michel Pranville
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