100 Greatest Literary Detectives

Author : Eric Sandberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442278233

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100 Greatest Literary Detectives by Eric Sandberg Pdf

Crime fiction is one of the most popular literary genres and has been for more than a century. At the heart of almost all forms of mysteries—from the Golden Age puzzler to the contemporary police procedural, from American hardboiled fiction to the Japanese timetable mystery—is the investigator. He—or, increasingly, she—can be a private eye, a police officer, or a general busybody. But whatever forms these investigators take, they are the key element of crime fiction. Criminals and their crimes come and go, while our attention is captured by these fascinating characters who exist at the intersection of so many different literary and social roles. 100 Greatest Literary Detectives offers a selection of the most influential, important, and intriguing fictional sleuths—amateur or professional—from around the world. From Sherlock Holmes to Harry Hole, Kinsey Millhone to Kiyoshi Mitarai, the detectives profiled here give readers a broader picture of one of fiction’s most popular genres. Each entry summarizes the distinctive features of notable investigators and their approaches to crime, provides a brief outline of major features of their fictional careers, and makes a case for their importance based on literary-historical impact, novelty, uniqueness, aesthetic quality, or cultural resonance. The characters profiled here include Lew Archer, Martin Beck, Father Brown, Brother Cadfael, Adam Dalgliesh, Mike Hammer, Miss Jane Marple, Hercule Poirot, Ellery Queen, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, Kay Scarpetta, Sam Spade, Phillip Trent, V. I. Warshawski, Lord Peter Wimsey, Nero Wolfe, and many others. Readers will find some of their favorite detectives here, learn more about their literary and cultural significance, and discover other great sleuths—old and new, local and international—in this engaging volume. 100 Greatest Literary Detectives provides a fascinating look into some of the most intriguing fictional characters of all time.

Author : Maxim Jakubowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000022305274

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100 Great Detectives, Or, The Detective Directory by Maxim Jakubowski Pdf

One hundred essays celebrate fiction's greatest detectives.

Author : Maxim Jakubowski
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0881849200

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One Hundred Great Detectives by Maxim Jakubowski Pdf

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle,Wilkie Collins,Edgar Allan Poe,Charles Dickens,G. K. Chesterton,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Robert Louis Stevenson,Emile Gaboriau,E. W. Hornung,M. McDonnell Bodkin,Guy Boothby,Jacques Futrelle,Melville Davisson Post,Ethel Lina White,Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy,Arthur Morrison,Edgar Wallace,Algernon Blackwood,Maurice Leblanc,Gaston Leroux,Anna Katharine Green,Fergus Hume,Dorothy L. Sayers,R. Austin Freeman
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 9153 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2300000063479

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100 classic detectives. Golden Age of Detective Fiction (Illustrated edition): The Gold-Bug, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Innocence of Father Brown, Crime and Punishment by Arthur Conan Doyle,Wilkie Collins,Edgar Allan Poe,Charles Dickens,G. K. Chesterton,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Robert Louis Stevenson,Emile Gaboriau,E. W. Hornung,M. McDonnell Bodkin,Guy Boothby,Jacques Futrelle,Melville Davisson Post,Ethel Lina White,Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy,Arthur Morrison,Edgar Wallace,Algernon Blackwood,Maurice Leblanc,Gaston Leroux,Anna Katharine Green,Fergus Hume,Dorothy L. Sayers,R. Austin Freeman Pdf

Some of the greatest detective stories every wrote are collected in this massive anthology. This book contains the stories and novels by Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Emile Gaboriau, E. W. Hornung, M. McDonnell Bodkin, Guy Boothby, Jacques Futrelle, Melville Davisson Post, Ethel Lina White, Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy, Arthur Morrison, Edgar Wallace, Algernon Blackwood, Wilkie Collins, Maurice Leblanc, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Gaston Leroux, Anna Katharine Green, Fergus Hume, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dorothy L. Sayers, R. Austin Freeman. Table of Contents Wilkie Collins The Moonstone A Romance Edgar Allan Poe The Gold-Bug The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Mystery of Marie Roget. A Sequel to “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” The Purloined Letter Charles Dickens Hunted Down Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes G. K. Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare The Innocence of Father Brown The Wisdom of Father Brown Emile Gaboriau The Lerouge Case by Emile Gaboriau Monsieur Lecoq The Mystery of Orcival E. W. Hornung The Amateur Cracksman Dead Men Tell No Tales The Crime Doctor M. McDonnell Bodkin The Capture of Paul Beck Guy Boothby The Red Rat's Daughter Jacques Futrelle The Problem of Cell 13 The Chase of the Golden Plate Melville Davisson Post Walker of the Secret Service The Sleuth of St. James's Square Ethel Lina White The Man Who Loved Lions Baroness Emma Orczy (Emmuska Orczy) The Old Man in the Corner The Scarlet Pimpernel Arthur Morrison Chronicles of Martin Hewitt Martin Hewitt, Investigator Edgar Wallace The Angel of Terror Algernon Blackwood Three More John Silence Stories Three John Silence Stories Maurice Leblanc The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar Gaston Leroux The Mystery of the Yellow Room Anna Katherine Green The Leavenworth Case Fergus Hume The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment Robert Louis Stevenson The Suicide Club The Rajah’s Diamond Dorothy L. Sayers Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel R. Austin Freeman John Thorndyke's Cases The Mystery of 31 New Inn

Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 019210036X

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The Literary Detective by John Sutherland Pdf

The Literary Detective is an omnibus edition of John Sutherland's three best-selling collections of literary puzzles, Is Heathcliffe a Murderer?, Can Jane Eyre be Happy?, and Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet? Investigating a variety of anomalies, enigmas, and conundrums such as 'Why does RobinsonCrusoe find only one footprint?' and 'Where does Fanny Hill keep her contraceptives?', Professor Sutherland explores the questions readers often ask and critics rarely discuss. His forensic skills focus on authors from Defoe and Fielding to Wells and Woolf, relishing in particular thenineteenth-century novelists, Austen, Collins, Dickens, and the Brontes.By addressing 'real world' questions John Sutherland has brought lit. crit. Down from the rarefied heights of academe and into the everyday discourse of ordinary readers, who bring their own expertise to bear on these novels. In his introduction he quotes from some of the many letters he hasreceived, which demonstrate that we can all be astute and entertaining critics. The 'Sherlock Holmes of Literature', as he has been called, John Sutherland reminds us of the sheer pleasure and excitement that good books inspire, and of their endless ability to surprise and delight us.

Author : Jerome H. Delamater,Ruth Prigozy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313370311

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Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction by Jerome H. Delamater,Ruth Prigozy Pdf

Combining theoretical and practical approaches, this collection of essays explores classic detective fiction from a variety of contemporary viewpoints. Among the diverse perspectives are those which interrogate the way the genre reflects important social and cultural attitudes, contributes to a reader's ability to adapt to the challenges of daily life, and provides alternate takes on the role of the detective as an investigator and arbiter of truth. Part I looks at the nature of and the audience for detective fiction, as well as at the genre as a literary form. This section includes an inquiry into the role of the detective; an application of object-relations psychology to the genre; and analyses of recent literary criticism positing that traditional detective fiction contained the seeds of its own subversion. Part II applies a variety of theoretical positions to Agatha Christie and her heirs in the British ratiocinative tradition. A concluding essay positions the genre within the middle-class traditions of the novel since its inception in the eighteenth century. Of interest to all scholars and students of detective fiction and British popular culture.

Author : Jon L. Breen
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002272867

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What about Murder?. by Jon L. Breen Pdf

This supplement covers over 350 titles in the original categories plus more than 200 entries in a new category: mystery anthologies with reference value.

Author : Mary K. Holland,Heather Hewett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501372759

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#MeToo and Literary Studies by Mary K. Holland,Heather Hewett Pdf

Literature has always recorded a history of patriarchy, sexual violence, and resistance. Academics have been using literature to expose and critique this violence and domination for half a century. But the continued potency of #MeToo after its 2017 explosion adds new urgency and wider awareness about these issues, while revealing new ways in which rape culture shapes our everyday lives. This intersectional guide helps readers, students, teachers, and scholars face and challenge our culture of sexual violence by confronting it through the study of literature. #MeToo and Literary Studies gathers essays on literature from Ovid to Carmen Maria Machado, by academics working across the United States and around the world, who offer clear ways of using our reading, teaching, and critical practices to address rape culture and sexual violence. It also examines the promise and limitations of the #MeToo movement itself, speaking to the productive use of social media as well as to the voices that the movement has so far muted. In uniting diverse voices to enable the #MeToo movement to reshape literary studies, this book is also committed to the idea that the way we read and write about literature can make real change in the world.

Author : Juneal M. Chenoweth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781440869143

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American Reference Books Annual by Juneal M. Chenoweth Pdf

Read professional, fair reviews by practicing academic, public, and school librarians and subject-area specialists that will enable you to make the best choices from among the latest reference resources. This newest edition of American Reference Books Annual (ARBA) provides librarians with insightful, critical reviews of print and electronic reference resources released or updated in 2017-2018, as well as some from 2019 that were received in time for review in the publication. By using this invaluable guide to consider both the positive and negative aspects of each resource, librarians can make informed decisions about which new reference resources are most appropriate for their collections and their patrons' needs. Collection development librarians who are working with limited budgets—as is the case in practically every library today—will be able to maximize the benefit from their monetary resources by selecting what they need most for their collection, while bypassing materials that bring limited value to their specific environment.

Author : Sandrine Sorlin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350062986

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Stylistic Manipulation of the Reader in Contemporary Fiction by Sandrine Sorlin Pdf

This book focuses on how readers can be 'manipulated' during their experience of reading fictional texts and how they are incited to perceive, process and interpret certain textual patterns. Offering fine-grained stylistic analysis of diverse genres, including crime fiction, short stories, poetry and novels, the book deciphers various linguistic, pragmatic and multimodal techniques. These are skilfully used by authors to achieve specific effects through a subtle manipulation of deixis, metalepsis, dialogue, metaphors, endings, inferences or rhetorical, narratorial and typographical control. Exploring contemporary texts such as The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Remains of the Day and We Need to Talk About Kevin, chapters delve into how readers are pragmatically positioned or cognitively (mis)directed as the author guides their attention and influences their judgment. They also show how readers' responses can, conversely, bring about a certain form of manipulation as readers challenge the positions the texts invite them to occupy.

Author : Eric Sandberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781003838364

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Studying Crime in Fiction by Eric Sandberg Pdf

The primary aim of Studying Crime in Fiction: An Introduction is to introduce the emerging cross-disciplinary area of study that combines the fields of crime fiction studies and criminology. The study of crime fiction as a genre has a long history within literary studies, and is becoming increasingly prominent in twenty-first-century scholarship. Less attention, however, has been paid to the ways in which elements of criminology, or the systematic study of crime and criminal behaviour from a wide range of perspectives, have influenced the production and reception of crime narratives. Similarly, not enough attention has been paid to the ways in which crime fiction as a genre can inform and enliven the study of criminology. Written largely for undergraduate and graduate students, but also for scholars of crime fiction and criminology interested in thinking across disciplinary boundaries, Studying Crime in Fiction: An Introduction provides full coverage of the backgrounds of the related fields of crime fiction studies and criminology, and explores the many ways they are reciprocally illuminating. The four main chapters in Section 1 (Orient You) familiarize readers with the history and contours of the broad fields within which Studying Crime in Fiction: An Introduction operates. It introduces the history of crime and criminology, as well the history of crime fiction and the academic field dedicated to its study. In its final chapter it looks at the ways these areas of study can be conceptually interrelated. Section 2 of the book (Equip You) is dedicated to examining aspects of criminological theory in relation to various forms of crime fiction. It highlights a range of the most relevant theories, paradigms, and problematics of criminology that appear in, shed light on, or can be effectively illuminated through reference to crime fiction. Its five chapters deal with the definition of crime; explanations for crime and criminal behaviour; investigations into crime; the experience of crime; and, finally, punishments for crime. All of these areas are examined alongside examples of crime fiction drawn from across the genre’s history. Section 3 (Enable You) presents six case studies. Each of these reads a work of crime fiction alongside one or more criminological approaches. Each case study is supplemented with a set of questions addressing issues central to the study of crime in fiction.

Author : Monica Dall'Asta,Jacques Migozzi,Federico Pagello,Andrew Pepper
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031219795

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Contemporary European Crime Fiction by Monica Dall'Asta,Jacques Migozzi,Federico Pagello,Andrew Pepper Pdf

This book represents the first extended consideration of contemporary crime fiction as a European phenomenon. Understanding crime fiction in its broadest sense, as a transmedia practice, and offering unique insights into this practice in specific European countries and as a genuinely transcontinental endeavour, this book argues that the distinctiveness of the form can be found in its related historical and political inquiries. It asks how the genre’s excavation of Europe’s history of violence and protest in the twentieth century is informed by contemporary political questions. It also considers how the genre’s progressive reimagining of new identities forged at the crossroads of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality is offset by its bleaker assessment of the corrosive effects of entrenched social inequalities, political corruption, and state violence. The result is a rich, vibrant collection that shows how crime fiction can help us better understand the complex relationship between Europe’s past, present, and future. Seven chapters are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Ágnes Zsófia Kovács,László B. Sári
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443867481

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Space, Gender, and the Gaze in Literature and Art by Ágnes Zsófia Kovács,László B. Sári Pdf

This volume explores how the concepts of space and gaze are tied in with social constructions of gender relations. It discusses the gendered body, the queer gaze, the relationship between body and memory, the memory of war, monstrosity, and also domestic and hybrid spaces as key concepts. The arguments within the book connect core theoretical issues of gender and space to well-known literary texts and contexts, like the poems of Sylvia Plath and the novels of Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison and Cormack McCarthy. The collection will be of interest to university students and instructors alike, as an extended introduction to critical and theoretical discourses on gender and space.

Author : Linda Pillière
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031548840

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Style and Sense(s) by Linda Pillière Pdf

Author : Nathan Ashman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000984514

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The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology by Nathan Ashman Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is the first comprehensive examination of crime fiction and ecocriticism. Across 33 innovative chapters from leading international scholars, this Handbook considers an emergent field of contemporary crime narratives that are actively responding to a diverse assemblage of global environmental concerns, whilst also opening up ‘classic’ crime fictions and writers to new ecocritical perspectives. Rigorously engaged with cutting-edge critical trends, it places the familiar staples of crime fiction scholarship – from thematic to formal approaches – in conversation with a number of urgent ecological theories and ideas, covering subjects such as environmental security, environmental justice, slow violence, ecofeminism and animal studies. The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is an essential introduction to this new and dynamic research field for both students and scholars alike.