Form And Ideology In Crime Fiction
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Author | : Stephen Knight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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 |
Author | : Martin Priestman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2003-11-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521008716 |
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 |
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 |
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 | : Stephen Knight |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2004-01-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780333791790 |
Stephen Knight's book is a full analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the most recent developments. Knight explains how and why the various forms of the genre evolved, explores major 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 best criticism is cited and the book provides full references and a helpful chronology, making this a highly readable complete study of a popular and still relatively underexamined genre.
Author | : Michael Cohen |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838638514 |
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Author | : Anya Morlan |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2014-08-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1443865419 |
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 |
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.
Author | : Jon Thompson |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Crime in literature |
ISBN | : 9780252062803 |
Reading fiction from high and low culture together, Fiction, Crime, and Empire skillfully sheds light on how crime fiction responded to the British and American experiences of empire, and how forms such as the detective novel, spy thrillers, and conspiracy fiction articulate powerful cultural responses to imperialism. Poe's Dupin stories, for example, are seen as embodying a highly critical vision of the social forces that were then transforming the United States into a modern, democratic industrialized nation; a century later, Le Carré employs the conventions of espionage fiction to critique the exhausted and morally compromised values of British imperialism. By exploring these works through the organizing figure of crime during and after the age of high imperialism, Thompson challenges and modifies commonplace definitions of modernism, postmodernism, and popular or mass culture.