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Russian Detective Studies in the First Half of the 20th Century [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2022
The article examines the works of Russian literary critics of the first half of the 20th century, such as K. Chukovsky, V. Bryusov, V. Shklovsky, E. Lann, N. Berkovsky, E. Vinaver, S. Eisenstein.
Petr A. Moiseev
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Emilio De Marchi’s Novel “The Priest’s Hat”: the Origins of Italian Giallo [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2022
The paper examines Emilio De Marchi’s novel “The priest’s hat” (1888) as a precursor of detective fiction in Italy. Influenced by Dostoevsky and the French tradition (Gaborio) with its attention to characters’ psychology, De Marchi tells the story of ...
Yulia S. Patronnikova
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The Semiotic Background of the Ineffective Investigation in the Weird Detective Story [PDF]

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica, 2023
The classical detective story is based on a teleological certainty offered by the narrative. In these stories, the detective successfully solves the crime, and the lawful order is restored in an assuring manner, so the closure of the narrative ...
Norbert Gyuris
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Subversion of the Image of the Hard-boiled Gumshoe in Richard Brautigan’s Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942

Critical Literary Studies, 2023
The present article aims to analyze Richard Brautigan’s Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942 (1977) in the light of the genre of Metaphysical Detective Story.
Ramtin Ebrahimi, Alireza Farahbakhsh
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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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A detective story: emphatics in Mehri [PDF]

, 2010
Until 1970, Ethio-Semitic was believed to be the only Semitic language sub-family in which the main correlate of “emphasis” is glottalization, a feature said at the time to be due to Cushitic influence. Since the work of T.M.
Bellem, A, Watson, JCE
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French Philological Detective as a New Subgenre of Criminal Literature (by the Example of F. Vargas Novels)

Научный диалог, 2020
The novelty of this study is in the fact that for the first time the characteristic features of the new detective subgenre, the philological detective, are described. The material for the study was the cycle of novels by the French author F. Vargas.
A. S. Bubnova
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'Essay on Detective Literature' & 'The Detective Story': dois ensaios de Fernando Pessoa sobre a ficção policial [PDF]

Pessoa Plural, 2018
Fernando Pessoa escreveu dois ensaios sobre a ficção policial: «An Essay on Detective Literature», em sua terceira adolescência, e «The Detective Story, no fim da década de 1920».
Miraglia, Gianluca
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'Red Sea – Red Square – Red Thread: A Philosophical Detective Story' by Lydia Goehr

Estetika, 2022
A book review of Lydia Goehr, 'Red Sea – Red Square – Red Thread: A Philosophical Detective Story'. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, xlii + 677 pp. ISBN 9780197572443.
Richard Eldridge
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The Case of Mór Jókai and the Detective Story

Hungarian Cultural Studies, 2017
While from the viewpoint of typology it is often stated that the genre of detective fiction originated with the work of Edgar Allan Poe, this statement can be challenged from the standpoint of literary or reception history.
Péter Hajdu
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