A Narratological Approach To Lists In Detective Fiction

Author : Sarah J. Link
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031332272

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A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction by Sarah J. Link Pdf

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.

Author : Roman Alexander Barton,Eva von Contzen,Anne Rüggemeier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031283727

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Literary Lists by Roman Alexander Barton,Eva von Contzen,Anne Rüggemeier Pdf

This book provides a concise introduction to lists in literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century. Tracing the changing functions of the literary list across time, it offers a broad range of case studies which situate selected enumerations in their respective contexts and demonstrate the versatility and creative potential of the list form. Starting with a review of previous research on the literary list, the book discusses four main constellations of enumeration: series and the great chain of being; itemization and enumerative realism; ‘letteracettera’ and experimental list-making; ‘white noise’ and creative exploits of enumeration between formal playfulness and existential exploration. The epilogue offers an analytical toolkit for the study of literary lists based on rhetorical theory.

Author : Heta Pyrhönen
Publisher : Camden House (NY)
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 187975181X

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Murder from an Academic Angle by Heta Pyrhönen Pdf

Dr Pyrhönen's innovative study is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the academic reception of the eternally popular detective story; the discussion, using both a chronological and thematic approach, considers the changing views, and methods of analysis, of this fascinating genre. The author begins by tracing the development of detective fiction criticism from its beginnings, often written by its best authors, such as Dorothy L. Sayers; goes on to examine the structuralists' and narratologists' interest in the genre as a test case for various theories of reading; and finally outlines the current debates about the ideological underpinnings of detective fiction and its relationship to 'serious' literature. This book will be of interest not only to students and scholars of literature, but also to the countless devotees of the detective story. DR PYRHÖNENteaches literature at the University of Helsinki in the Department of Comparative Literature and Theatre Research.

Author : W. Chernaik,M. Swales,R. Vilain
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0333746015

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The Art of Detective Fiction by W. Chernaik,M. Swales,R. Vilain Pdf

The contributors to this volume all pay tribute to, and seek to account for, the astonishing durability of the detective story as a narrative genre. The essays range generously, taking a variety of theoretical approaches and including detective fiction in languages other than English, but particular attention is paid to the `Golden Age' of English detective story writing and to the `hard-boiled' American version on the genre. This is a collection that will appeal to the scholar and to the devotee alike, to all those, in fact, who can never resist the lure of finding out whodunnit.

Author : Michael Cohen
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838638511

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Murder Most Fair by Michael Cohen Pdf

The treatment of formal features is historical."--Jacket.

Author : Anthony Channell Hilfer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292711365

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The Crime Novel by Anthony Channell Hilfer Pdf

Although rarely distinguished from the detective story, the crime novel offers readers a quite different experience. In the detective novel, a sympathetic detective figure uses reason and intuition to solve the puzzle, restore order, and reassure readers that "right" will always prevail. In the crime novel, by contrast, the "hero" is either the killer, the victim, a guilty bystander, or someone falsely accused, and the crime may never be satisfactorily solved. These and other fundamental differences are set out by Tony Hilfer in The Crime Novel, the first book that completely defines and explores this popular genre. Hilfer offers convincing evidence that the crime novel should be regarded as a genre distinct from the detective novel, whose conventions it subverts to develop conventions of its own. Hilfer provides in-depth analyses of novels by Georges Simenon, Margaret Millar, Patricia Highsmith, and Jim Thompson. He also treats such British novelists as Patrick Hamilton, Shelley Smith, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, as well as the American novelists Cornell Woolrich, John Franklin Bardin, James M. Cain, and Fredric Brown. In addition, he defines the distinctions between the American crime novel and the British, showing how their differences correspond to differences in American and British detective fiction. This well-written study will appeal to a general audience, as well as teachers and students of detective and mystery fiction. For anyone interested in the genre, it offers valuable suggestions of "what to read next."

Author : Reshmi Dutta-Flanders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1137470291

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The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction by Reshmi Dutta-Flanders Pdf

Author : Jonathan Coe
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141918334

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What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe Pdf

What a Carve Up! - a hilarious 1980s political satire by Jonathan Coe It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year: Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's turning hospitals into car parks; Roddy's selling art in return for sex; down on the farm Dorothy's squeezing every last pound from her livestock; Thomas is making a killing on the stock exchange; and Mark is selling arms to dictators. But once their hapless biographer Michael Owen starts investigating the family's trail of greed, corruption and immoral doings, the time growing ripe for the Winshaws to receive their comeuppance. . . This wickedly funny take on life under the Thatcher government was the winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 'A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of twists and ironies' Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times 'A riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes' Time Out 'Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving' Guardian Jonathan Coe's novels are filled with biting social commentary, moving and astute observations of life and hilarious set pieces that have made him one of the most popular writers of his generation. His other titles, The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Rotters' Club (winner of the Everyman Wodehouse prize), The Closed Circle, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, The House of Sleep (winner of the1998 Prix Médicis Étranger), and The Rain Before it Falls, are all available in Penguin paperback.

Author : Jude Dibia,Chika Unigwe,Nnedi Okorafor
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617756481

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Lagos Noir by Jude Dibia,Chika Unigwe,Nnedi Okorafor Pdf

“A stellar cast of award-winning Nigerian authors . . . a must-read for crime lovers looking for something different.”—Brittle Paper In Akashic Books’s acclaimed series of original noir anthologies, each book comprises all new stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Now, West Africa enters the Noir Series arena, meticulously edited by one of Nigeria’s best-known authors. In Lagos Noir, the stories are set in “a city of more than 21 million and an amazing amalgam of wealth, poverty, corruption, humor, bravery, and tragedy. Abani and a dozen other contributors tell stories that are both unique to Lagos and universal in their humanity . . . This entry stands as one of the strongest recent additions to Akashic’s popular noir series” (Publishers Weekly, starred review, pick of the week). The anthology includes stories by Chris Abani, Nnedi Okorafor, E.C. Osondu, Jude Dibia, Chika Unigwe, A. Igoni Barrett, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Adebola Rayo, Onyinye Ihezukwu, Uche Okonkwo, Wale Lawal, ’Pemi Aguda, and Leye Adenle. “The beauty of this book, which contains 13 stories from Nigerian writers, is that it serves as a travelogue, too.”—Bloomberg, “The Darkest Summer Reading List for Those Bright, Beachy Days” “With writers like Igoni Barrett, Leye Adenle, and E.C. Osondu contributing, Lagos Noir offers wildly different perspectives on both the city itself and the state of noir fiction. This book is almost like a world in itself, one that you’ll want to dive back into and get lost in again and again.”—CrimeReads, “One of the 10 Best Crime Anthologies of 2018”

Author : J. Kenneth Van Dover
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1575910918

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We Must Have Certainty by J. Kenneth Van Dover Pdf

We Must Have Certainty surveys the development of the genre of the detective story from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century to its current profile in the early twenty-first century. It locates a principal appeal of the genre in the nature of the world that the detective necessarily inhabits: a world of more or less realistic violence and excitement and, at the same time, a world that always, in the end, makes sense. It suggests that there is a significance to a popular narrative formula that requires that an initial world of suspicion and uncertainty be inevitably transformed by the detective into a world of clarity and order. Though scholarship in the field is acknowledged, the author's citations are most often from detective stories themselves. The essays are written in an accessible style; those who have read a few novels in the genre, as well as those who have read many, will find the book stimulating and provocative.

Author : Peter Lovesey
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781641291828

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The Finisher by Peter Lovesey Pdf

On the 50th anniversary of the publication of his first novel, Peter Lovesey, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master and titan of the British detective novel, returns to the subject of his very first mystery—running. Through a particularly ill-fated series of events, couch potato Maeve Kelly, an elementary school teacher whose mother always assured her “curvy” girls shouldn’t waste their time trying to be fit, has been forced to sign up for the Other Half, Bath’s springtime half marathon. The training is brutal, but she must disprove her mother and collect pledges for her aunt’s beloved charity. What Maeve doesn’t know is just how vicious some of the other runners are. Meanwhile, Detective Peter Diamond is tasked with crowd control on the raucous day of the race—and catches sight of a violent criminal he put away a decade ago, and who very much seems to be up to his old tricks now that he is paroled. Diamond’s hackles are already up when he learns that one of the runners never crossed the finish line and disappeared without a trace. Was Diamond a spectator to murder?

Author : Edward J. Rielly
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476612249

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Murder 101 by Edward J. Rielly Pdf

This collection of essays examines how college professors teach the genre of detective fiction and provides insight into how the reader may apply such strategies to his or her own courses. Multi-disciplinary in scope, the essays cover teaching in the areas of literature, law, history, sociology, anthropology, architecture, gender studies, cultural studies, and literary theory. Also included are sample syllabi, writing assignments, questions for further discussion, reading lists, and further aids for course instruction.

Author : LeRoy Panek
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015017660765

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An Introduction to the Detective Story by LeRoy Panek Pdf

This book is a no-apologies introduction to Detective Fiction. It's written in an aggressive, modern English well-suited to a genre which has traditionally broken ground in terms of aggressive writing, contemporary scenarios, and tough dialogue.

Author : Charles J. Rzepka,Lee Horsley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119675778

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A Companion to Crime Fiction by Charles J. Rzepka,Lee Horsley Pdf

A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography

Author : Anne Mullen,Emer O'Beirne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 900448633X

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Crime Scenes by Anne Mullen,Emer O'Beirne Pdf