The Reader And The Detective Story
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The Reader And The Detective Story
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Author : George N. Dove
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1997
The Reader And The Detective Story written by George N. Dove and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fiction categories.
As every detective novel addict knows, there's no greater high than figuring out "whodunit" before the final revelation, resulting in the kind of intellectual satisfaction a shot of bourbon can never offer. Dove takes this reader/writer play to a new level by critically assessing the genre through the principles of Reader Response Theory, outlining the detective story as a special case of reading governed by rules and a specialized formula that traces its genealogy back to Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A Gentleman S Murder
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Author : Christopher Huang
language : en
Publisher: Inkshares
Release Date : 2018-07-31
A Gentleman S Murder written by Christopher Huang and has been published by Inkshares this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-31 with Fiction categories.
Featuring a half-Chinese detective protagonist, A GENTLEMAN'S MURDER is a must for those who love mysteries and reads like a Christie-esque whodunit with a modern eye toward the historical treatment of Chinese veterans and post-war racism.
The Midnight Guest
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Author : Fred M. White
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-02
The Midnight Guest written by Fred M. White and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-02 with Fiction categories.
'The Midnight Guest' by Fred M. White follows the story of a woman, Mrs. Delahay, who rushes to Lord Ravenspur's house to deliver the devastating news that her husband, Louis, has been murdered. As Lord Ravenspur attempts to comfort her, he begins to question the circumstances of Louis' death. Through the investigation that follows, the reader is taken on a thrilling journey filled with intrigue, danger, and suspense.
Detective Fiction
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Author : W. B. Stevenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Detective Fiction written by W. B. Stevenson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Detective and mystery stories categories.
Negative Space
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Author : Lilly Dancyger
language : en
Publisher: Santa Fe Writers Project
Release Date : 2021-05-01
Negative Space written by Lilly Dancyger and has been published by Santa Fe Writers Project this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Despite her parents' struggles with addiction, Lilly Dancyger always thought of her childhood as a happy one. But what happens when a journalist interrogates her own rosy memories to reveal the instability around the edges? Dancyger's father, Joe Schactman, was part of the iconic 1980s East Village art scene. He created provocative sculptures out of found materials like animal bones, human hair, and broken glass, and brought his young daughter into his gritty, iconoclastic world. She idolized him—despite the escalating heroin addiction that sometimes overshadowed his creative passion. When Schactman died suddenly, just as Dancyger was entering adolescence, she went into her own self-destructive spiral, raging against a world that had taken her father away. As an adult, Dancyger began to question the mythology she'd created about her father—the brilliant artist, struck down in his prime. Using his sculptures, paintings, and prints as a guide, Dancyger sought out the characters from his world who could help her decode the language of her father's work to find the truth of who he really was.
Talking About Detective Fiction
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Author : P. D. James
language : en
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Release Date : 2009-12-01
Talking About Detective Fiction written by P. D. James and has been published by Knopf Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
P. D. James examines the genre of detective fiction from top to bottom, beginning with the mystery plots at the hearts of such novels as Great Expectations and Jane Eyre, and bringing us firmly into the present with such writers as Amanda Cross and Henning Mankell. Along the way she writes about Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, and Josephine Tey, among many others. She traces the facts of their lives into and out of their work; clarifies their individual styles; and gives us indelible portraits of the characters they've created: from Sherlock Holmes, "the unchallenged Great Detective," to Sara Paretsky's spunky, sexually liberated female investigator, V. I. Warshawski. She compares British and American "Golden Age" mystery writing, including the groundbreaking work of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. She discusses detective fiction as social history; the stylistic components of the genre; her own process of writing; how critics have reacted over the years (Edmund Wilson hated it, W.H. Auden was "addicted"); and what she sees as a renewal of detective stories—and of the detective hero—in recent years. Here is the perfect marriage of writer and subject—essential reading for every lover of detective fiction.
Agatha Christie And New Directions In Reading Detective Fiction
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Author : Alistair Rolls
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-06-16
Agatha Christie And New Directions In Reading Detective Fiction written by Alistair Rolls and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-16 with Fiction categories.
This book brings a new lens to the work of Agatha Christie through a series of close readings which challenge the official solutions by Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. This book's approach interweaves two core ideas: first, it explores the importance of French critic Pierre Bayard’s self-styled ‘detective criticism’; second, it takes detective criticism in a new direction by refocusing on the beginnings of Agatha Christie’s novels. In this way, the book counters the end-orientation that has traditionally dominated the reading experience of, and critical response to, detective fiction by exploring the potential of the beginning to host other interpretations and stories. Offering a new way of reading detective fiction, this book is a mixture of narratology and detective criticism, and deploys it in the form of radical new readings of a number of Christie’s most famous works. This illuminating text will interest students and scholars of crime and detective fiction, literary studies and comparative literature.
A Detective S Triumphs
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Author : James Edward Muddock
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-11-09
A Detective S Triumphs written by James Edward Muddock and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with Fiction categories.
A Detective's Triumphs by James Edward Muddock is about the party of Lord Blank and the mysterious crime that occurs there. Excerpt: "ON that most sensational, or at any rate one of the most sensational of Derby days, what was known as 'Hermit's Derby,' a party of ladies and gentlemen, who, if not justly entitled to claim to walk in the exclusive ranks of the upper ten,' were not far removed from them, so far as their mode of life and habits were concerned, went down to the race-course from London in a splendidly-appointed drag, drawn by four magnificent bays that were tooled by young Lord Blank."
Detecting Texts
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Author : Patricia Merivale
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-06-07
Detecting Texts written by Patricia Merivale and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Fatal Lies
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Author : Frank Tallis
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-02-24
Fatal Lies written by Frank Tallis and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-24 with Fiction categories.
A dogged police inspector and an insightful young psychiatrist match wits with depraved criminal minds in this acclaimed mystery series set in Freud’s Vienna. In glittering turn-of-the-century Vienna, brutal instinct and refined intellect fight for supremacy. The latest, most disturbing example: the mysterious and savage death of a young cadet in the most elite of military academies, St. Florian’s. Even using his cutting-edge investigative techniques, Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt cannot crack the school’s closed and sadistic world. He must again enlist the aid of his frequent ally, Dr. Max Liebermann, an expert in Freudian psychology. But how can Liebermann help when he a crisis of his own: handling his conflicted and forbidden feelings for two different women, one a former patient? As the case unfolds, powerful forces will stop at nothing to keep a dark secret.