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Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge

Author : Antoine Dechêne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331994469X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge written by Antoine Dechêne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dechêne calls the metacognitive mystery tale. It delineates a corpus of texts presenting 'unreadable' mysteries which, under the deceptively monolithic appearance of subverting traditional detective story conventions, offer a multiplicity of motifs – the overwhelming presence of chance, the unfulfilled quest for knowledge, the urban stroller lost in a labyrinthine text – that generate a vast array of epistemological and ontological uncertainties. Analysing the works of a wide variety of authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, and Henry James, this book is vital reading for scholars of detective fiction.

Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge

Author : Andrei Baltakmens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge written by Andrei Baltakmens and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Perspectives on Detective Fiction

Author : Casey Cothran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317435249
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on Detective Fiction written by Casey Cothran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, examining the ways it shapes issues of social destabilization, moral ambiguity, reader complicity, intertextuality, and metafiction. Breaking new ground by moving beyond the critical preoccupation with classification of historical types and generic determinants, contributors examine the effect of mystery on literary forms and on readers, who experience the provocative, complex process of coming to grips with the unknown and the unknowable. This volume opens up discussion on publically acclaimed, modern works of mystery and on classic pieces, addressing a variety of forms including novels, plays, graphic novels, television series, films, and ipad games. Re-examining the interpretive potential of a genre that seems easily defined yet has endless permutations, the book closely analyzes the cultural function of mystery, the way it intervenes in social and political problems, as well as the literary properties that give the genre its particular shape. The volume treats various texts as meaningful subjects for critical analysis and sheds new light on the interpretive potential for a genre that creates as much ambiguity as it does clarity. Scholars of mystery and detective fiction, crime fiction, genre studies, and cultural studies will find this volume invaluable.

Detecting Texts

Author : Patricia Merivale
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205456
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Detecting Texts written by Patricia Merivale and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Economic Investigations in Twentieth-Century Detective Fiction

Author : Professor Zi-Ling Yan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472452550
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Economic Investigations in Twentieth-Century Detective Fiction written by Professor Zi-Ling Yan and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Talking About Detective Fiction

Author : P. D. James
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307743136
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Talking About Detective Fiction written by P. D. James and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P. D. James, the undisputed queen of mystery, gives us an intriguing, inspiring and idiosyncratic look at the genre she has spent her life perfecting. Examining mystery from top to bottom, beginning with such classics as Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, and then looking at such contemporary masters as Colin Dexter and Henning Mankell, P. D. James goes right to the heart of the genre. Along the way she traces the lives and writing styles of Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, and many more. Here is P.D. James discussing detective fiction as social history, explaining its stylistic components, revealing her own writing process, and commenting on the recent resurgence of detective fiction in modern culture. It is a must have for the mystery connoisseur and casual fan alike.

Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction

Author : David Riddle Watson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303087074X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction written by David Riddle Watson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction examines questions of truth and relativism, turning to detectives, both real and imagined, from Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin to Robert Mueller, to establish an oblique history of the path from a world where not believing in truth was unthinkable to the present, where it is common to believe that objective truth is a remnant of a simpler, more naïve time. Examining detective stories both literary and popular including hard-boiled, postmodern, and twenty-first century novels, the book establishes that examining detective fiction allows for a unique view of this progression to post-truth since the detective’s ultimate job is to take the reader from doubt to belief. David Riddle Watson shows that objectivity is intersubjectivity, arguing that the belief in multiple worlds is ultimately what sustains the illusion of relativism.

Mystery fiction and modern life

Author :
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034404
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Mystery fiction and modern life written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of the genre shows that the fictional world portrayed by the mystery writer parallels the actual world of the reader. Because daily life is so implausible, readers willingly suspend disbelief as they are absorbed by the pages of detective fiction. This apparent unity of the fictional thriller and veritable circumstance produces a code of modernity that is the essence of the genre. In the light of this concept of modernity Mystery Fiction and Modern Life examines works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald, Tony Hillerman, Agatha Christie, Helen MacInnes, Patricia Cornwell, Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, Anthony Price, and others.

The Figure of the Detective

Author : Charles Brownson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476612722
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Figure of the Detective written by Charles Brownson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with a history of the detective genre, coextensive with the novel itself, identifying the attitudes and institutions needed for the genre to emerge in its mature form around 1880. The theory of the genre is laid out along with its central theme of the getting and deployment of knowledge. Sherlock Holmes, the English Classic stories and their inheritors are examined in light of this theme and the balance of two forms of knowledge used in fictional detection—cool or rational, and warm or emotional. The evolution of the genre formula is driven by changes in the social climate in which it is embedded. These changes explain the decay of the English Classic and its replacement by noir, hardboiled and spy stories, to end in the cul-de-sac of the thriller and the nostalgic Neo-Classic. Possible new forms of the detective story are suggested.

A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction

Author : Sarah J. Link
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303133227X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction written by Sarah J. Link and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book analyzes how both readers and detectives rely on listing as an ordering and structuring tool, and highlights the crucial role that lists assume in the reading process. It extends the boundaries of an emerging field dedicated to the study of lists in literature and caters to a newly revived interest in form and New Formalist approaches in narratological research. The central aim of this book is to show how detective fiction makes use of lists in order to frame various conceptions of knowledge. The frames created by these lists are crucial to decoding the texts, and they can be used to demonstrate how readers can be engaged in the act of detection or manipulated into accepting certain propositions in the text.

You Know My Method

Author : J. Kenneth Van Dover
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879726409
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book You Know My Method written by J. Kenneth Van Dover and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the interrelations between the development of detective novels and the codification of scientific methods from the mid- 19th to the mid-20th centuries. Shows how fictional detectives increasingly drew on science and helped raise its esteem among the public. Focuses on Edgar Allen Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, and Arthur B. Reeve, but also notes other writers. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction

Author : Barry Forshaw
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1405383879
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction written by Barry Forshaw and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-07-16 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction takes the reader on a guided tour of the mean streets and blind corners that make up the world’s most popular literary genre. The insider’s book recommends over 200 classic crime novels from masterminds Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith to modern hotshots James Elroy and Patricia Cornwall. You’ll investigate gumshoes, spies, spooks, serial killers, forensic females, prying priests and patsies from the past, present, and future. Complete with extra information on what to read next, all movie adaptions, and illustrated throughout with photos and diagrams ...all the evidence that counts

Violent Minds

Author : Matthew Levay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110842886X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Violent Minds written by Matthew Levay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Levay analyzes representations of the criminal in British and American modernism from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s.

The Literary Angel

Author : AmiJo Comeford
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786457716
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Literary Angel written by AmiJo Comeford and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fictionalized Los Angeles of television’s Angel is a world filled with literature—from the all-important Shansu prophecy that predicts Angel’s return to a state of humanity to the ever-present books dominating the characters’ research sessions. This collection brings together essays that engage Angel as a text to be addressed within the wider fields of narrative and literature. It is divided into four distinct parts, each with its own internal governing themes and focus: archetypes, narrative and identity, theory and philosophy, and genre. Each provides opportunities for readers to examine a wide variety of characters, tropes, and literary nuances and influences throughout all five televised seasons of the series and in the current continuation of the series in comic book form.

The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge

Author : The New York Times
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312313678
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge written by The New York Times and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-11-05 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the "New York Times" comes a thorough, authoritative, easy-to-use guide to a broad range of essential subjects.

Sidney Chambers and The Problem of Evil

Author : James Runcie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620406462
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Sidney Chambers and The Problem of Evil written by James Runcie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in The Grantchester Mystery Series, and the inspiration for the primetime PBS/Masterpiece television series, Grantchester. It is the 1960s and Canon Sidney Chambers is enjoying his first year of married life with his German bride Hildegard. But life in Grantchester rarely stays quiet for long. Our favourite clerical detective soon attempts to stop a serial killer who has a grievance against the clergy; investigates the disappearance of a famous painting after a distracting display of nudity by a French girl in an art gallery; uncovers the fact that an 'accidental' drowning on a film shoot may not have been so accidental after all; and discovers the reasons behind the theft of a baby from a hospital in the run-up to Christmas, 1963. In the meantime, Sidney wrestles with the problem of evil, attempts to fulfil the demands of Dickens, his faithful Labrador, and contemplates, as always, the nature of love. The third in 'The Grantchester Mysteries' series – six detective novels spanning thirty years of British history – these four longer stories are guaranteed to delight the many fans of Canon Sidney Chambers.

Probable Cause

Author : LeRoy Panek
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879724863
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Probable Cause written by LeRoy Panek and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American crime fiction has developed into writing that has a commitment to democracy and the democratic way of life, a compassion and empathy and a style which has created a significant branch of American literature.