Form And Ideology In Crime Fiction
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Author | : Stephen Knight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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The author studies different kinds of highly popular crime fiction to show their social function, drawing on recent work in the sociology of literature, which has explained how stories both shape and ratify our response to the world.
Author | : Stephen Knight |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1980-11-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1349054585 |
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Author | : Martin Priestman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2003-11-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521008716 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This Companion covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the 'detective' fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in the eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form.
Author | : John Scaggs |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780415318259 |
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Provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for all those studying crime fiction.
Author | : Stephen Knight |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2010-04-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1137020210 |
Download Crime Fiction since 1800 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few women), through stars like Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, to newly self-aware voices of the present - feminist, African American, lesbian, gay, postcolonial and postmodern. Stephen Knight's fascinating book is a comprehensive analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. Knight explains how and why the various forms of the genre have evolved, explores a range of authors and movements, and argues that the genre as a whole has three parts – the early development of Detection, the growing emphasis on Death, and the modern celebration of Diversity. The expanded second edition has been thoroughly updated in the light of recent research and new developments, such as ethnic crime fiction, the rise of thrillers in the serial-killer and urban collapse modes, and feel-good 'cozies'. It also explores a number of fictional works which have been published in the last few years and features a helpful glossary. With full references, and written in a highly engaging style, this remains the essential short guide for readers of crime fiction everywhere!
Author | : NA NA |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1349627682 |
Download The Art of Detective Fiction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In the hands of many of the great writers, the unravelling of mystery is only one strand within a complex project. Other things get unravelled, too - the belief in a rationally explicable world, in the beneficent, ordering force of culture and civilization. Constantly the detective story delights in muddying the waters, in acknowledging the omnipresent possibilities of anarchy and carnage. As a genre, it is supremely able to combine popular appeal with the ability to disturb, provoke and challenge the reader. The essays in this volume all pay tribute to, and seek to account for, the astonishing durability of the detective story as a narrative genre. They range generously, taking a variety of theoretical approaches and including detective fiction in languages other than English, but particular attention is paid to the 'Golden Age' of English detective story-writing and to the 'hard-boiled' American version of the genre. This is a collection that will appeal to the scholar and to the devotee alike; to all those, in fact, who cannot resist the lure of finding out whodunit.
Author | : Heather Worthington |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2011-08-31 |
Genre | : Study Aids |
ISBN | : 1350310328 |
Download Key Concepts in Crime Fiction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An insight into a popular yet complex genre that has developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The volume explores the contemporary anxieties to which crime fiction responds, along with society's changing conceptions of crime and criminality. The book covers texts, contexts and criticism in an accessible and user-friendly format.
Author | : Michael Cohen |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838638514 |
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The treatment of formal features is historical."--Jacket.
Author | : Anya Morlan |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2014-08-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1443865419 |
Download Christianity and the Detective Story Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Christianity and the Detective Story is the first book to gather together academic criticism on this particular connection between religion and popular culture. The articles cover the origin of this relationship in the works of G. K. Chesterton, examine its development through the “Golden Age” of mystery writers such as Dorothy L. Sayers, and include discussions of recent and contemporary television crime dramas. The volume makes a strong case for viewing mystery writing as a valid means of providing both entertainment and religious insight.
Author | : Patricia Merivale |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780812216769 |
Download Detecting Texts Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Although readers of detective fiction ordinarily expect to learn the mystery's solution at the end, there is another kind of detective story--the history of which encompasses writers as diverse as Poe, Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Auster, and Stephen King--that ends with a question rather than an answer. The detective not only fails to solve the crime, but also confronts insoluble mysteries of interpretation and identity. As the contributors to Detecting Texts contend, such stories belong to a distinct genre, the "metaphysical detective story," in which the detective hero's inability to interpret the mystery inevitably casts doubt on the reader's similar attempt to make sense of the text and the world. Detecting Texts includes an introduction by the editors that defines the metaphysical detective story and traces its history from Poe's classic tales to today's postmodernist experiments. In addition to the editors, contributors include Stephen Bernstein, Joel Black, John T. Irwin, Jeffrey T. Nealon, and others.