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Le roman policier japonais, entre démocratie balbutiante et montée du militarisme (1923-1945)

Belphégor
Japanese crime fiction enjoyed a golden age in the 1920s and 1930s, with the emergence of a first generation of writers who established an “indigenous” genre while intense debates about its definition erupted.
Gérald Peloux
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'“A strange enough region wherein to wander and muse": Mapping Clerkenwell in Victorian Popular Fictions' [PDF]

, 2019
Drawing on the work of Bertrand Westphal, this essay attempts to perform a geocritical reading of the London district of Clerkenwell. After discussing the spatial turn in the Humanities and introducing a range of spatial critical approaches, the essay ...
Vuohelainen, M.
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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, Журналистика
The 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 Maritorious Melodrama: Film Noir with a Female Detective [PDF]

, 2009
Feminist critics tend to disagree whether the parachuting of women into traditionally male roles—for example, that of detective—results in a feminist representation.
Gates, Philippa
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Signs and Roots. On Crímenes y Jardines (2013) by Pablo De Santis [PDF]

, 2018
Proponemos una lectura sobre los modos en que el género policial se presenta y representa en la novela Crímenes y jardines (2013) de Pablo De Santis. Para esto, planteamos cuatro ejes de discusión.
Maltz, Hernán Joel
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Rhetorical structure and reader manipulation in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express [PDF]

, 2009
This paper describes Agatha Christie’s use of rhetoric to convince readers of the ‘truth’ of her detective’s solution in The Murder on the Orient Express, and uses an adaptation of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) designed for analyses of long extracts ...
Alexander, M.
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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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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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The Beauty and the Barrister: Gender Roles, Madness, and the Basis for Identity in Lady Audley\u27s Secret [PDF]

, 2014
This thesis examines the concept of identity in the novel Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. In the mid to late Victorian period, self-definition was strongly tied to gender roles.
Hayes, Corey
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