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The Birth of a Detective Story from the Spirit of Fantasy [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2006 The aim of the study is to make a research in genealogic and structural relationship between a genre of fantasy and a detective story. The relationship of both two genres was demonstrated through series of interpretations of particular texts not ...
Tomáš Horváth
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'Red Sea – Red Square – Red Thread: A Philosophical Detective Story' by Lydia Goehr [PDF]
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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SaksamaDetective fiction is a formulaic genre that combines familiar narrative structures with the creative freedom of invention. According to John G. Cawelti, the detective story follows a recognizable pattern involving the introduction of a detective, the ...
Baiq Jasnieta Anjani Putri +1 more
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Understanding Detective Stories [PDF]
, 1992 In this paper, we illustrate a general approach to psychological inference by considering its application to a simple detective story. Detective stories provide a fertile ground for the investigation of psychological inference, because their plots so often hinge on the mental states of the characters involved.
Pratt, Ian, Xu, Luopinh, Leudar, Ivan
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Detective fiction in Cuban society and culture. [PDF]
, 2000 PhDThe object of this thesis is to reach towards an understanding of Cuban society through a study of its detective fiction and more particularly contemporary Cuban society through the novels of the author and critic, Leonardo Padura Fuentes.
Wilkinson, Stephen
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Theology in suspense : how the detective fiction of P.D. James provokes theological thought [PDF]
, 2012 Electronic redacted version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holderThe following dissertation argues that the detective fiction of P.D. James provokes her readers to think theologically.
Sharkey, Jo Ann
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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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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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The Case of the Disappearing/Appearing Slow Learner: An Interpretive Mystery
Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2014 This interpretive essay attempts to demonstrate the potential good that might come from approaching a hermeneutic phenomenological study as a hard-boiled detective story in the tradition of Raymond Chandler. The authors attempt to explain the hermeneutic
W. John Williamson, James Colin Field
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Two Chief Inspectors: Belan and Záruba. Cases of Slovak Crime Fiction in the Adventure novels Edition [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2019 Vladimír Petrík, together with Kornel Földvári, was a pioneer of Slovak „detective studies“. This study deals with Slovak detective novels from the 1960s, which Petrík reflected on.
Michal Jareš
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