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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"detective fiction"”.
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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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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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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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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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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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"In the business of believing women's stories": Feminism through detective fiction (Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton)
… way in which texts of the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction can encourage a feminist attitude in their readers. While some critics insist that the hard-boiled genre is incompatible with feminism due to what they believe is its inherent misogyny, there are a number who have argued eloquently …
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The ‘Failed’ Detectives: Failure as a Structure of Feeling in American Detective Fiction, 1914-1953
<p>This study reads American detective fiction in its golden era in the early and mid-twentieth century through the keyword of failure. Using Raymond Williams’s ‘structure of feeling’ to make “a cultural hypothesis” of failure especially prevailing at the turn of the century, I argue that failure …
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She Had to be Bad: The Femme Fatale in Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and Film Noir
… icon until the publication of Hard-Boiled detective novels in the 1940s. The Hard-Boiled detective novel positions the <em>femme fatale</em> as manipulative seductress who deliberately commits murder and functions as a villain. As the character grew in popularity, the sign of the<em> femme …
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The relationship between the Aristotelian, Newtonian and holistic scientific paradigms and selected British detective fiction 1980-2010
… holistic scientific paradigms and contemporary detective fiction. The work of scholars including N. Katherine Hayles, Martha A. Turner has applied Thomas S. Kuhn’s notion of scientific paradigms to literary works, especially those of the Victorian period. There seemed to be an absence, however, …
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Solving the ‘Mystery’ of Blackness through African American Detective Fiction: Pauline Hopkins’ and Rudolph Fisher’s Intervention in a White Tradition
… investigates two early works of African American detective fiction, Pauline Hopkins’ Hagar’s Daughter and Rudolph Fisher’s The Conjure-Man Dies, and the ways in which these writers intervene in a white-dominated tradition to expose constructions of race. As these writers work from and modify …
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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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The Police and the Periodical: Policing and Detection in Victorian Journalism and the Rise of Detective Fiction, c. 1840-1900
… century periodical press and the development of detective fiction, between approximately 1840 and 1900. It argues that these two Victorian developments were closely interrelated, and that each had significant impacts on the other which has hitherto gone underexplored in academic scholarship. The …
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How has Western detective fiction represented and othered marginalized groups such as Asians, women and people with disabilities, how does that fiction relate to Indian detective fiction, and how might that dynamic be subverted through my experimental creative work, Sounds & Shadows: Casebook of the Blind PI?
This research examines how Western detective fiction has negatively represented, othered, exoticized and demonized Asians, women and people with disabilities. It then considers the influence of Western detective fiction upon Indian detective fiction, in terms of both the colonial relationship …
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Tyd as struktuurelement in speur- en misdaadfiksie met spesifieke verwysing na drie tekste deur Deon Meyer
This study explores the structure of crime and detective fiction. It takes the view that certain texts do not adopt either form specifically, but often adopts a combination thereof. It looks at the role which time plays in the structure of these forms by examining the time strategies that are …
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Women of Mystery and Romance: Tracing a Feminist Rewriting of the Detective Genre
Many critics find that female characters in detective fiction are never entirely successful as either women or detectives. They argue that authors find it impossible to portray women properly in both roles—one persona always eclipses the other. The conflict is generally attributed to the …
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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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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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Hide Your Fires
… the conventions of classical and “hard-boiled” detective fiction in order to subvert them. Paul Auster, Thomas Pynchon, and Haruki Murakami are among many male authors who have used the genre’s formulaic structure to challenge its inherent rationality and moral universalism. While these authors …
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Marked Men: Sport and Masculinity in Victorian Popular Culture, 1866-1904
… – newspapers, spectacular melodrama, and series detective fiction – and how these depictions register diverse incarnations of this figure, demonstrating a discomfort with, and anxiety about, the way in which the sporting experience after the Industrial Revolution influenced gender ideology, …
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