Detective Fiction And The Problem Of Knowledge

Author : Antoine Dechêne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319944692

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Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge by Antoine Dechêne Pdf

This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dechêne calls the metacognitive mystery tale. It delineates a corpus of texts presenting 'unreadable' mysteries which, under the deceptively monolithic appearance of subverting traditional detective story conventions, offer a multiplicity of motifs – the overwhelming presence of chance, the unfulfilled quest for knowledge, the urban stroller lost in a labyrinthine text – that generate a vast array of epistemological and ontological uncertainties. Analysing the works of a wide variety of authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, and Henry James, this book is vital reading for scholars of detective fiction.

Author : Andrei Baltakmens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : OCLC:154059881

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Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge by Andrei Baltakmens Pdf

Author : Casey Cothran,Mercy Cannon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317435242

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New Perspectives on Detective Fiction by Casey Cothran,Mercy Cannon Pdf

This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, examining the ways it shapes issues of social destabilization, moral ambiguity, reader complicity, intertextuality, and metafiction. Breaking new ground by moving beyond the critical preoccupation with classification of historical types and generic determinants, contributors examine the effect of mystery on literary forms and on readers, who experience the provocative, complex process of coming to grips with the unknown and the unknowable. This volume opens up discussion on publically acclaimed, modern works of mystery and on classic pieces, addressing a variety of forms including novels, plays, graphic novels, television series, films, and ipad games. Re-examining the interpretive potential of a genre that seems easily defined yet has endless permutations, the book closely analyzes the cultural function of mystery, the way it intervenes in social and political problems, as well as the literary properties that give the genre its particular shape. The volume treats various texts as meaningful subjects for critical analysis and sheds new light on the interpretive potential for a genre that creates as much ambiguity as it does clarity. Scholars of mystery and detective fiction, crime fiction, genre studies, and cultural studies will find this volume invaluable.

Author : David Riddle Watson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030870744

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Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction by David Riddle Watson Pdf

Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction examines questions of truth and relativism, turning to detectives, both real and imagined, from Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin to Robert Mueller, to establish an oblique history of the path from a world where not believing in truth was unthinkable to the present, where it is common to believe that objective truth is a remnant of a simpler, more naïve time. Examining detective stories both literary and popular including hard-boiled, postmodern, and twenty-first century novels, the book establishes that examining detective fiction allows for a unique view of this progression to post-truth since the detective’s ultimate job is to take the reader from doubt to belief. David Riddle Watson shows that objectivity is intersubjectivity, arguing that the belief in multiple worlds is ultimately what sustains the illusion of relativism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 1617034401

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Mystery fiction and modern life by Anonim Pdf

This analysis of the genre shows that the fictional world portrayed by the mystery writer parallels the actual world of the reader. Because daily life is so implausible, readers willingly suspend disbelief as they are absorbed by the pages of detective fiction. This apparent unity of the fictional thriller and veritable circumstance produces a code of modernity that is the essence of the genre. In the light of this concept of modernity Mystery Fiction and Modern Life examines works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald, Tony Hillerman, Agatha Christie, Helen MacInnes, Patricia Cornwell, Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, Anthony Price, and others.

Author : Sarah J. Link
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Matthew Levay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108428866

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Violent Minds by Matthew Levay Pdf

Levay analyzes representations of the criminal in British and American modernism from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s.

Author : Professor Zi-Ling Yan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472452559

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Economic Investigations in Twentieth-Century Detective Fiction by Professor Zi-Ling Yan Pdf

In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour. Using the detective as a reference point and enactor of socially based interests, Yan shows that Golden Age texts are distinguished by their conservationism (and not only by their conservatism), with the detectives’ actions serving to stabilize institutions with specific ideological aims. In contrast, the criminal investigations of the hard-boiled detective, who is poorly aligned with institutions and strong interest groups, reveal the fragility of the status quo in the face of escalating cycles of violence. Key to Yan’s discussion are theories of exchange, value, and the gift, the latter of which he suggests is more akin to detective work than is wage labour. Analyzing texts by a wide range of authors that includes Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Sayers, Raoul Whitfield, George Harmon Coxe, and Mickey Spillane, Yan demonstrates that the detective’s truth-generating function, most often characterized as a process of discovery rather than creation, is in fact crucial to the institutional and class-based interests that he or she serves.

Author : AmiJo Comeford,Tamy Burnett
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786457717

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The Literary Angel by AmiJo Comeford,Tamy Burnett Pdf

The fictionalized Los Angeles of television’s Angel is a world filled with literature—from the all-important Shansu prophecy that predicts Angel’s return to a state of humanity to the ever-present books dominating the characters’ research sessions. This collection brings together essays that engage Angel as a text to be addressed within the wider fields of narrative and literature. It is divided into four distinct parts, each with its own internal governing themes and focus: archetypes, narrative and identity, theory and philosophy, and genre. Each provides opportunities for readers to examine a wide variety of characters, tropes, and literary nuances and influences throughout all five televised seasons of the series and in the current continuation of the series in comic book form.

Author : Charles Brownson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476612720

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The Figure of the Detective by Charles Brownson Pdf

This book begins with a history of the detective genre, coextensive with the novel itself, identifying the attitudes and institutions needed for the genre to emerge in its mature form around 1880. The theory of the genre is laid out along with its central theme of the getting and deployment of knowledge. Sherlock Holmes, the English Classic stories and their inheritors are examined in light of this theme and the balance of two forms of knowledge used in fictional detection—cool or rational, and warm or emotional. The evolution of the genre formula is driven by changes in the social climate in which it is embedded. These changes explain the decay of the English Classic and its replacement by noir, hardboiled and spy stories, to end in the cul-de-sac of the thriller and the nostalgic Neo-Classic. Possible new forms of the detective story are suggested.

Author : LeRoy Panek
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0879724862

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Probable Cause by LeRoy Panek Pdf

American crime fiction has developed into writing that has a commitment to democracy and the democratic way of life, a compassion and empathy and a style which has created a significant branch of American literature.

Author : Eric Sandberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : LeRoy Panek
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879723785

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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 : Marino Alvarez
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780921211

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A Professor Reflects on Sherlock Holmes by Marino Alvarez Pdf

The uniqueness of this book is the essays and activities that include both serious and farcical writings about Arthu Conan Doyle's, Sherlock Holmes. A travelogue that compares Reichenbach Falls and Trummelbach Falls for Professor Moriarty's demise; and notes from a visit to Trinity College at Oxford to view Monsignor Knox's writings and entries in the Gryphon Club Book provide the reader with engaging insights into Sherlock Holmes' world of scholarship.

Author : Kirsten Moana Thompson
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015070737898

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Crime Films by Kirsten Moana Thompson Pdf

'Crime Films' analyses the wide body of films that fall under the rubric of crime, from the gangster film to the film noir, and from the classic whodunnit to TV series like 'Law and Order' and 'CSI'.