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Twentieth Century Crime Fiction
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Author : Lee Horsley
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2005
Twentieth Century Crime Fiction written by Lee Horsley and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction aims to enhance understanding of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction by examining a wide variety of the detective and crime fiction produced in Britain and America during the twentieth century. It will be of interest to anyone who enjoys reading crime fiction but is specifically designed with the needs of students in mind. It introduces different theoretical approaches to crime fiction (e.g., formalist, historicist, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, feminist) and will be a useful supplement to a range of crime fiction courses, whether they focus on historical contexts, ideological shifts, the emergence of sub-genres, or the application of critical theories. Forty-seven widely available stories and novels are chosen for detailed discussion. In seeking to illuminate the relationship between different phases of generic development Lee Horsley employs an overlapping historical framework, with sections doubling back chronologically in order to explore the extent to which successive transformations have their roots within the earlier phases of crime writing, as well as responding in complex ways to the preoccupations and anxieties of their own eras. The first part of the study considers the nature and evolution of the main sub-genres of crime fiction: the classic and hard-boiled strands of detective fiction, the non-investigative crime novel (centered on transgressors or victims), and the "mixed" form of the police procedural. The second half of the study examines the ways in which writers have used crime fiction as a vehicle for socio-political critique. These chapters consider the evolution of committed, oppositional strategies, tracing the development of politicized detective and crime fiction, from Depression-era protests against economic injustice to more recent decades which have seen writers launching protests against ecological crimes, rampant consumerism, Reaganomics, racism, and sexism.
Twentieth Century Crime Fiction
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Author : Gill Plain
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-16
Twentieth Century Crime Fiction written by Gill Plain and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-16 with Literary Collections categories.
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Twentieth Century Crime Mystery Writers
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Author : NA NA
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-12-25
Twentieth Century Crime Mystery Writers written by NA NA and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Twentieth Century Crime And Mystery Writers
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Author : Lesley Henderson
language : en
Publisher: Chicago : St. James Press
Release Date : 1991
Twentieth Century Crime And Mystery Writers written by Lesley Henderson and has been published by Chicago : St. James Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with American fiction categories.
**** Cited in Sheehy and BCL3. The foremost reference in the field, completely revised and updated, and now covering about 600 authors, mainly English-language writers whose work appeared during or since the time of Conan Doyle. The entry for each writer consists of a biography, a bibliography, and a signed critical essay. Living authors were invited to add a comment on their work; many of them accepted, and their remarks are both entertaining and enlightening. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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.
Twentieth Century Crime Fiction
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Author : Gill Plain
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-16
Twentieth Century Crime Fiction written by Gill Plain and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-16 with Literary Collections categories.
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Twentieth Century Crime And Mystery Writers
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Author : John M. Reilly
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1985
Twentieth Century Crime And Mystery Writers written by John M. Reilly and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with American fiction categories.
Defective Inspectors Crime Fiction Pastiche In Late Twentieth Century French Literature
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Author : Simon Kemp
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Defective Inspectors Crime Fiction Pastiche In Late Twentieth Century French Literature written by Simon Kemp and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Crime fiction is a popular target for literary pastiche in France. From the nouveau roman and the Oulipo group to the current avant-garde, writers have seized on the genre to exploit it for their own ends, toying with its traditional plots and characters, and exploring its preoccupations with perception, reason and truth. In the first full-length study of the phenomenon, Simon Kemp's investigation centres on four major writers of the twentieth century, Alain Robbe-Grillet (b. 1922), Michel Butor (b. 1926), Georges Perec (193682) and Jean Echenoz (b. 1947). Out of their varied encounters with the genre, from deconstruction of the classic detective story to homage to the roman noir, Kemp elucidates the complex relationship between the pasticheur and his target, which demands an entirely new assessment of pastiche as a literary form.
Murder Most Fair
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Author : Michael Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 2000
Murder Most Fair written by Michael Cohen and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
The treatment of formal features is historical."--Jacket.
The Rise Of The Detective In Early Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction
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Author : Heather Worthington
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2005-05-18
The Rise Of The Detective In Early Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction written by Heather Worthington and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Detection existed in fiction long before Poe and Doyle. Its real origins lurk in the popular press of the early Nineteenth century, where the detective and the case were steadily developed. The well-known masters of early crime fiction, including Collins and Dickens, drew on this material, found in texts that have rarely been reprinted or even discussed. In this revealing book, Heather Worthington combines scholarly and archival study with theoretically informed analysis to unearth the foundations of detective fiction. This is essential reading for those researching in, studying, or just fascinated by crime fiction.