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2023
Abstract Manohar Malgonkar’s The Garland Keepers (1980), a little-known, fast-paced, and highly entertaining political spy thriller, provides an entry point to show how the crisis of the Emergency—which conventional literary wisdom has led us to believe demands a similar crisis in form—elicits here a derivative reification of crisis, in ...
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Abstract Manohar Malgonkar’s The Garland Keepers (1980), a little-known, fast-paced, and highly entertaining political spy thriller, provides an entry point to show how the crisis of the Emergency—which conventional literary wisdom has led us to believe demands a similar crisis in form—elicits here a derivative reification of crisis, in ...
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Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts, 2005
Decades before the publishing phenomenon The Da Vinci Code turned millions of readers on to the excitement and glamour of early Christian history and biblical studies, a steady stream of novels—some obscure, some bestsellers were teaching the popular reading public about the thrills and chills of the academic study of Scriptures.
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Decades before the publishing phenomenon The Da Vinci Code turned millions of readers on to the excitement and glamour of early Christian history and biblical studies, a steady stream of novels—some obscure, some bestsellers were teaching the popular reading public about the thrills and chills of the academic study of Scriptures.
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Choice Reviews Online, 1999
The thriller is perhaps the most popular and widespread movie genre - and the most difficult to define. Thrillers can contain gangsters or ghosts, space helmets or fedoras. They charge our familiar world with a spirit of exotic, old-fashioned adventure.
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The thriller is perhaps the most popular and widespread movie genre - and the most difficult to define. Thrillers can contain gangsters or ghosts, space helmets or fedoras. They charge our familiar world with a spirit of exotic, old-fashioned adventure.
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2023
What if the original teachings of Jesus were different from the Bible's sanitized 'orthodox' version? What covert motivations might inspire those who decide what the text of the Bible 'says' or what it 'means'? For some who ask conspiratorial questions like these, the Bible is the vulnerable victim of secular forces seeking to divest the USA of its ...
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What if the original teachings of Jesus were different from the Bible's sanitized 'orthodox' version? What covert motivations might inspire those who decide what the text of the Bible 'says' or what it 'means'? For some who ask conspiratorial questions like these, the Bible is the vulnerable victim of secular forces seeking to divest the USA of its ...
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Abstract This chapter looks at Charade and Wait Until Dark to analyze how, in playing a woman threatened with deception and murder in thrillers, Hepburn adjusted her screen persona to reflect her real age, reversed the conventional role of women in this genre through her strong female characters who confront danger on their own terms ...
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2003
CONTENTS: Introduction: crime fiction and detective fiction; 1. Eighteenth-century crime writing Ian A. Bell; 2. The Newgate novel and sensation fiction, 1830¿1868 Lynn Pykett; 3. The short story from Poe to Chesterton Martin Kayman; 4. French crime fiction Sita Schütt; 5. The golden age Stephen Knight; 6. The private eye Dennis Porter; 7.
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CONTENTS: Introduction: crime fiction and detective fiction; 1. Eighteenth-century crime writing Ian A. Bell; 2. The Newgate novel and sensation fiction, 1830¿1868 Lynn Pykett; 3. The short story from Poe to Chesterton Martin Kayman; 4. French crime fiction Sita Schütt; 5. The golden age Stephen Knight; 6. The private eye Dennis Porter; 7.
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