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Publisher : Oak Knoll Press
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Total Pages : 50 pages
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Download or read book Gollancz Crime Fiction 1928-1988 written by and published by Oak Knoll Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gill Plain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135974543
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Twentieth Century Crime Fiction written by Gill Plain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Ralph Spurrier
Publisher : Oak Knoll Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
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Download or read book Boardman Crime and Science Fiction 1942-1967 written by Ralph Spurrier and published by Oak Knoll Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aoife Leahy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443811998
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Approach to Modernism in the Fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers written by Aoife Leahy and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothy L. Sayers wrote bestselling detective novels and short stories in the 1920s and 1930s. Working within a popular medium, Sayers promotes nineteenth century and modernist literature with skills learnt during a period of employment in an advertising agency. In much of her fiction she recommends her choice of good books by name. She also suggests that taking Victorian literature as a foundation can bring her reader to a better understanding of literary modernism. With a didactic intent, Sayers shows how Lewis Carroll’s Alice can help us to eventually read Virginia Woolf, for instance. Her approach to educating her readers is always through entertainment. Sayers worked briefly as a teacher before taking up copywriting and retained important insights on how to improve the learning experience for any reader. Sayers’ admiration for the Victorian sensation author Wilkie Collins is widely recognised. This book examines Sayers’ attention to equally important Victorian influences from John Ruskin and George Eliot to Oscar Wilde, particularly in relation to the topic of education. She often questions the boundaries between “popular” and “serious” literature. Sayers’ personal views on the connections between mid-Victorian, late Victorian and high modernist authors are also considered.
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Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bibliographic Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Antiquarian Book Monthly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191642711
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Crime Fiction: A Very Short Introduction written by Richard Bradford and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime fiction has been one of the most popular genres since the 19th century, but has roots in works as varied as Sophocles, Herodotus, and Shakespeare. In this Very Short Introduction Richard Bradford explores the history of the genre, by considering the various definitions of 'crime fiction' and looking at how it has developed over time. Discussing the popularity of crime fiction worldwide and its various styles; the role that gender plays within the genre; spy fiction, and legal dramas and thrillers; he explores how the crime novel was shaped by the work of British and American authors in the 18th and 19th centuries. Highlighting the works of notorious authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Raymond Chandler — to name but a few — he considers the role of the crime novel in modern popular culture and asks whether we can, and whether we should, consider crime fiction serious 'literature'. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Stephen Knight
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786493984
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Secrets of Crime Fiction Classics written by Stephen Knight and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with William Godwin's Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, this book covers in detail the great works of detective fiction--Poe's Dupin stories, Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Sayers' Strong Poison, Chandler's The Big Sleep, and Simenon's The Yellow Dog. Lesser-known but important early works are also discussed, including Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, Emile Gaboriau's M. Lecoq, Anna Katharine Green's The Leavenworth Case and Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. More recent titles show increasing variety in the mystery genre, with Patricia Highsmith's criminal-focused The Talented Mr. Ripley and Chester Himes' African-American detectives in Cotton Comes to Harlem. Diversity develops further in Sara Paretsky's tough woman detective V.I. Warshawski in Indemnity Only, Umberto Eco's medievalist and postmodern The Name of the Rose and the forensic feminism of Patricia Cornwell's Postmortem. Notably, the best modern crime fiction has been primarily international--Manuel Vasquez Montalban's Catalan Summer Seas, Ian Rankin's Edinburgh-set The Naming of the Dead, Sweden's Stieg Larsson's The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo and Vikram Chanda's Mumbai-based Sacred Games. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Maurizio Ascari
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230234534
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book A Counter-History of Crime Fiction written by Maurizio Ascari and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-09-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a look at the evolution of crime fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related sub-genres, it explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies, the gothic and anarchist fiction, while taking into account the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism and criminal anthropology.
Author : Trevor Howard Howard-Hill
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book British Literary Bibliography, 1980-1989 written by Trevor Howard Howard-Hill and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Knight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137020210
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Crime Fiction since 1800 written by Stephen Knight and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031298497
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sherlock Holmes onwards, fictional detectives use lenses: Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction argues that these visual aids are metaphors for ways of seeing, and that they help us to understand not only individual detectives’ methods but also the kinds of cultural work detective fiction may do. It is sometimes regarded as a socially conservative form, and certainly the enduring popularity of ‘Golden Age’ writers such as Christie, Sayers, Allingham and Marsh implies a strong element of nostalgia in the appeal of the genre. The emphasis on visual aids, however, suggests that solving crime is not a simple matter of uncovering truth but a complex, sophisticated and inherently subjective process, and thus challenges any sense of comforting certainties. Moreover, the value of eye-witness testimony is often troubled in detective fiction by use of the phrase ‘the ocular proof’, whose origin in Shakespeare’s Othello reminds us that Othello is manipulated by Iago into misinterpreting what he sees. The act of seeing thus comes to seem ideological and provisional, and Lisa Hopkins argues that the kind of visual aid selected by each detective is an index of his particular propensities and biases.
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Total Pages : 614 pages
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Download or read book AEB, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for Oct. 1977 contains Index to reviews of bibliographical publications, 1976.
Author : Kate Watson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786491175
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Women Writing Crime Fiction, 1860-1880 written by Kate Watson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Conan Doyle has long been considered the greatest writer of crime fiction, and the gender bias of the genre has foregrounded William Godwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Emile Gaboriau and Fergus Hume. But earlier and significant contributions were being made by women in Britain, the United States and Australia between 1860 and 1880, a period that was central to the development of the genre. This work focuses on women writers of this genre and these years, including Catherine Crowe, Caroline Clive, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs. Henry (Ellen) Wood, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Louisa May Alcott, Metta Victoria Fuller Victor, Anna Katharine Green, Celeste de Chabrillan, "Oline Keese" (Caroline Woolmer Leakey), Eliza Winstanley, Ellen Davitt, and Mary Helena Fortune--innovators who set a high standard for women writers to follow.
Author : Martin Priestman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521008716
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction written by Martin Priestman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Charles J. Rzepka
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119675774
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Crime Fiction written by Charles J. Rzepka and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography
Author : Jesper Gulddal
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 178962469X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Criminal Moves written by Jesper Gulddal and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminal Moves is a ground-breaking collection of essays that challenges the distinction between literary and popular fiction and proposes that crime fiction is a genre that constantly violates its own boundaries. Reorienting crime fiction studies towards the mobility of the genre, it has profound ramifications for how we read individual crime stories.
