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Economic Investigations In Twentieth Century Detective Fiction

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Author : Professor Zi-Ling Yan
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2015-04-28

Economic Investigations In Twentieth Century Detective Fiction written by Professor Zi-Ling Yan and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-28 with Literary Criticism categories.

In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour. Using the detective as a reference point and enactor of socially based interests, Yan shows that Golden Age texts are distinguished by their conservationism (and not only by their conservatism), with the detectives’ actions serving to stabilize institutions with specific ideological aims. In contrast, the criminal investigations of the hard-boiled detective, who is poorly aligned with institutions and strong interest groups, reveal the fragility of the status quo in the face of escalating cycles of violence. Key to Yan’s discussion are theories of exchange, value, and the gift, the latter of which he suggests is more akin to detective work than is wage labour. Analyzing texts by a wide range of authors that includes Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Sayers, Raoul Whitfield, George Harmon Coxe, and Mickey Spillane, Yan demonstrates that the detective’s truth-generating function, most often characterized as a process of discovery rather than creation, is in fact crucial to the institutional and class-based interests that he or she serves.

Economic Investigations In Twentieth Century Detective Fiction

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Author : Yan Zi-Ling
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09

Economic Investigations In Twentieth Century Detective Fiction written by Yan Zi-Ling and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Literary Criticism categories.

Clues A Journal Of Detection Vol 35 No 2 Fall 2017

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Author : Janice M. Allan
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-09-22

Clues A Journal Of Detection Vol 35 No 2 Fall 2017 written by Janice M. Allan and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-22 with Literary Criticism categories.

For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

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Author : Dennis Poupard
language : en
Publisher: Twentieth-Century Literary Cri
Release Date : 1986-12

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism written by Dennis Poupard and has been published by Twentieth-Century Literary Cri this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide a selection of critical excerpts on the works of nineteen authors who died between 1900 and 1960, each including a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, and a bibliographical citation.

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

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Author : Gale Research Company
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism written by Gale Research Company and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Literature, Modern categories.

Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, 1900-1960.

Brown Gumshoes

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Author : Ralph E. Rodriguez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-11

Brown Gumshoes written by Ralph E. Rodriguez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11 with Literary Criticism categories.

Winner, Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, 2006 Popular fiction, with its capacity for diversion, can mask important cultural observations within a framework that is often overlooked in the academic world. Works thought to be merely "escapist" can often be more seriously mined for revelations regarding the worlds they portray, especially those of the disenfranchised. As detective fiction has slowly earned critical respect, more authors from minority groups have chosen it as their medium. Chicana/o authors, previously reluctant to write in an underestimated genre that might further marginalize them, have only entered the world of detective fiction in the past two decades. In this book, the first comprehensive study of Chicano/a detective fiction, Ralph E. Rodriguez examines the recent contributions to the genre by writers such as Rudolfo Anaya, Lucha Corpi, Rolando Hinojosa, Michael Nava, and Manuel Ramos. Their works reveal the struggles of Chicanas/os with feminism, homosexuality, familia, masculinity, mysticism, the nationalist subject, and U.S.-Mexico border relations. He maintains that their novels register crucial new discourses of identity, politics, and cultural citizenship that cannot be understood apart from the historical instability following the demise of the nationalist politics of the Chicana/o movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In contrast to that time, when Chicanas/os sought a unified Chicano identity in order to effect social change, the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s have seen a disengagement from these nationalist politics and a new trend toward a heterogeneous sense of self. The detective novel and its traditional focus on questions of knowledge and identity turned out to be the perfect medium in which to examine this new self.