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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Detective and mystery stories"”.
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The Zumbrota
… project that consists of a craft introduction and Act I of my novel, The Zumbrota. In part one, the craft introduction, I look at the history of the serial detective in crime fiction and examine how serial detectives fit into the discussion of round and flat characters as defined by E.M. …
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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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City of devils
… two parts: a craft paper on merging fantasy and mystery genres and the first fifty pages of an adult fantasy mystery novel. The craft paper explores different strategies authors use to navigate the tension between mystery and the supernatural, and it analyzes these strategies in three novels, …
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Detecting Masculinity: The Positive Masculine Qualities of Fictional Detectives.
Detective fiction highlights those qualities of masculinity that are most valuable to a contemporary culture. In mysteries a cultural context is more thoroughly revealed than in any other genre of literature. Through the crimes, an audience can understand not only the fears of a particular society …
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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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From Falling Beams to Fallen Souls : The Ethical Development of the Hard-Boiled Detective Novel
<p>The hard-boiled detective story ushered in a revolution in the mystery story. The older "formal" mystery story saw society as a benevolent, ordering force which the detective restored by catching the murderer, while the hard-boiled mystery portrayed society as corrupt, wild and flawed, and …