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Showing 1 to 20 of 141 for “"Detective"”.
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Former Boy Detective
<p>Former Boy Detective is a novella or novel written in flash—each chapter written in approximately 1,000 words. The novel follows its titular character as he leaves the life of sleuthing behind and attends college in search of a new identity. As he adjusts to new life on campus, making friends, …
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Detective/text/critic
… of the metaphors of detection and reading. Detective fiction is often seen as an enactment of reading, while the literary critic is often described in terms of detection, investigation and interrogation. The Introductory section discusses the implications that such a self-reflexive and …
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Monstrum : the vampire in the detective story /
My approach to the vampire detective highlights its connections to the private detective's story and reveals the monstrous investigators' debt to early feminist forms of detection -specifically in their reformation of the' other' and of traditional forms of power and authority. Seen in this light …
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Sam Spade as the detective next door: industry, culture, and class in post-war radio adaptations of hardboiled detective fiction
The character of the hardboiled detective seems a strange programming choice for early American radio networks. Despite his considerable popularity in print and film in the 1930s and 1940s, the hardboiled detective's violence and cynicism about American social and economic structures directly …
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Between afrocentrism and universality : detective fiction by black women
… authors place a black woman in the role of the detective - an innovative feature not only in the realm of female detective literature of the past two decades but also with regard to the current discourse about race and class in US-American society. This discourse is important because detective …
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Not Just the Facts: Victorian Detective Fiction's Critique of Information
This dissertation argues that mid-Victorian detective fiction critiques concurrent shifts in Victorian information culture. Detectives in fiction check alibis, investigate clues, and perform acts of detection and ratiocination which link their labor to social procedures of information management. …
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Detecting colonialism: Detective fiction in Native American and Sardinian literatures
… literatures, focussing on literary renditions of detective stories, a recent development which has occurred in both literatures. The study is based on Procedura (1988), and Il terzo suono (1995), by Sardinian author Salvatore Mannuzzu; The Sharpest Sight (1992), Bone Game (1994), and Nightland …
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Concepts of social justice and the modern American detective novel
The idea of justice as a social virtue and as an individual value has intrigued philosophers for centuries. The emphasis it has received throughout history and in various cultures and societies has provided the central core of a debate which has attracted the attention of classical and modern …
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The case of the Indian detective: Native American mystery novels
… to Judson R. Taylor’s Phil Scott, the Indian Detective: A Tale of Startling Mysteries (1882), the Indian detective did not captivate the public imagination until the Western lost force as a vehicle for telling stories about Indians. Tony Hillerman and his 1970s competitors created Mysteries …
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Tom Taylor's Ticket-of-Leave Man: His Detective Model and Financial Commentary
… Man</italic>: the character of the detective, of the ticket-of-leave man (a paroled criminal), and Victorian finances within this 1863 melodrama by Tom Taylor. Taylor's ingenuity is revealed by comparing two main characters' dramatic persona and real-life counterparts as seen through …
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The (Im)possibility of Detective Fiction in Sicily: Sciascia, Camilleri and Piazzese
Abstract This thesis examines the detective fiction of the Sicilian writers Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989), Andrea Camilleri (1925-) and Santo Piazzese (1941-). All of the works discussed are detective novels set the south-western part of Sicily. The authors chosen for analysis use a traditional, …
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Poisoners, larcenists, and the mad chambermaid: Villainy in late Victorian detective fiction
… patterns of villainy in late nineteenth-century detective fiction in order to examine middle class conceptions of criminality and the way those models reflect the values of Victorian society. Through a study of more than sixty pieces of short detective fiction, this study identifies and focuses …
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A labyrinth of endless steps : the postmodern city and Paul Auster's urban detective
… the effects of this spatial mutation on Auster's detective protagonists. The detective's traditional cognitive function is shown to depend upon a cartographical ability to spatially organize the events of a case as part of the process of transforming them into a coherent narrative in hopes of …
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The detective novel in Zulu : form and theme in C.T. Msimang's Walivuma Icala
Includes bibliographical references.
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Controversial Politics, Conservative Genre: Rex Stout's Archie-Wolfe Duo and Detective Fiction's Conventional Form
… and radical political content expressed in his detective fiction. His political ideals often made him many enemies. Stances such as his ardent opposition to censorship, racism, Nazism, Germany, Fascism, Communism, McCarthyism, and the unfettered FBI were potentially offensive to colleagues and …
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Bringing Up The Bodies: Golden Age Detective Fiction and the buried past, 1920-1970
Detective fiction of the ‘Golden Age’ begins after the First World War. The sense that this severed the present era from a formerly continuous narrative of history can be seen in the language of the decades after the war: full of gaps and cleavages, of never-healing wounds. I read the popularity of …
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Return to the scene of the crime: The returnee detective and postcolonial crime fiction
… through the figure of the 'returnee detective' in these texts and determines how this recurring figure is used to mediate the reader's understanding of civil conflict in the postcolonial world. What makes this trope so noteworthy, and merits investigation, is the way in which guilt …
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