Detective Fiction Through Ages

Author : HAMEED
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798890668189

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Detective Fiction Through Ages by HAMEED Pdf

Embark on a thrilling literary odyssey with "Detective Fiction Through Ages," a captivating exploration of the genre's evolution from bygone eras to the present day. Delve into the minds of literary giants such as Edgar Allan Poe, whose dark and macabre tales laid the foundation for the genre. Witness the psychological depth of Fyodor Dostoevsky's works, where complex characters grapple with the eternal struggle between good and evil. Experience the grandeur of Victor Hugo's storytelling as he weaves intricate plots within the tapestry of historical events. "Detective Fiction Through Ages" pays homage to literary pioneers like Vikas Swarup, Anita Nair, Satyajit Ray, Austin Freeman, E.C. Bentley, G.K. Chesterton, and Melvin Davisson Post as they reshaped the genre with their distinctive approaches, showcasing their contributions to a genre that continues to captivate readers worldwide. From the classic tales that laid the groundwork to the fresh perspectives of contemporary authors, this book celebrates the enduring power of detective fiction and its ability to transport us into a world of intrigue, suspense, and relentless pursuit of truth.

Author : Christopher Huang
Publisher : Inkshares
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942645955

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A Gentleman's Murder by Christopher Huang Pdf

Featuring a half-Chinese detective protagonist, A GENTLEMAN'S MURDER is a must for those who love mysteries and reads like a Christie-esque whodunit with a modern eye toward the historical treatment of Chinese veterans and post-war racism.

Author : Laird R. Blackwell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476670690

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H.C. Bailey's Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction by Laird R. Blackwell Pdf

H.C. Bailey's detective Reggie Fortune was one of the most popular protagonists of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fortune appeared in nine novels yet it was in a series of 84 short stories that were published from 1920 to 1940 where he truly shone, combining elements of several popular archetypes--the eccentric logician, the forensic investigator, the hard-boiled interrogator, the psychological profiler, the defender of justice. This critical study examines the Fortune stories in the context of other popular detective fiction of the era. Bailey's classics are distinguished by well-clued puzzles, brilliant sleuthing, vivid description and social critique, with Fortune evoking images of Don Quixote and the Arthurian Knights in his pursuit of truth and justice in an uncaring world.

Author : J.C Bernthal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319335339

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Queering Agatha Christie by J.C Bernthal Pdf

This book is the first fully theorized queer reading of a Golden Age British crime writer. Agatha Christie was the most commercially successful novelist of the twentieth century, and her fiction remains popular. She created such memorable characters as Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, and has become synonymous with a nostalgic, conservative tradition of crime fiction. J.C. Bernthal reads Christie through the lens of queer theory, uncovering a playful, alert, and subversive social commentary. After considering Christie’s emergence in a commercial market hostile to her sex, in Queering Agatha Christie Bernthal explores homophobic stereotypes, gender performativity, queer children, and masquerade in key texts published between 1920 and 1952. Christie engaged with debates around human identity in a unique historical period affected by two world wars. The final chapter considers twenty-first century Poirot and Marple adaptations, with visible LGBT characters, and poses the question: might the books be queerer?

Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : Random House
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446429334

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The Daughter Of Time by Josephine Tey Pdf

'A detective story with a very considerable difference. Ingenious, stimulating and very enjoyable' SUNDAY TIMES 'As interesting and enjoyable a book as they will meet in a month of Sundays' OBSERVER Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant, recovering from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III, believed to have brutally killed his brother's children - the Princes in the Tower - to make his crown secure. But is the hunchback with such a sensitive, noble face really one of the world's most heinous villains? Or was he the victim of one of the most insidious plots in history? 'One of the best mysteries of all time' NEW YORK TIMES 'Suspense is achieved by unexpected twists and extremely competent storytelling . . . credible and convincing' SPECTATOR

Author : Julie H. Kim
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476677156

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Crime Fiction and National Identities in the Global Age by Julie H. Kim Pdf

To read a crime novel today largely simulates the exercise of reading newspapers or watching the news. The speed and frequency with which today's bestselling works of crime fiction are produced allow them to mirror and dissect nearly contemporaneous socio-political events and conflicts. This collection examines this phenomenon and offers original, critical, essays on how national identity appears in international crime fiction in the age of populism and globalization. These essays address topics such as the array of competing nationalisms in Europe; Indian secularism versus Hindu communalism; the populist rhetoric tinged with misogyny or homophobia in the United States; racial, religious or ethnic others who are sidelined in political appeals to dominant native voices; and the increasing economic chasm between a rich and poor. More broadly, these essays inquire into themes such as how national identity and various conceptions of masculinity are woven together, how dominant native cultures interact with migrant and colonized cultures to explore insider/outsider paradigms and identity politics, and how generic and cultural boundaries are repeatedly crossed in postcolonial detective fiction.

Author : Roger Dalrymple,Andrew Green
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040089590

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The Idea of Education in Golden Age Detective Fiction by Roger Dalrymple,Andrew Green Pdf

This book presents an exploration of how Golden Age detective fiction encounters educational ideas, particularly those forged by the transformative educational policymaking of the interwar period. Charting the educational policy and provision of the era, and referring to works by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edmund Crispin and others, this book explores the educational capacity and agency of literary detectives, the learning spaces of the genre and the kinds of knowledge that are made available to inquirers both inside and outside the text. It is argued that the genre explores a range of contemporaneous propositions on the balance between academic curriculum and practicum, length of school life and the value of lifelong learning. This book’s closing chapter considers the continuing pedagogic value for contemporary classrooms of engaging with the genre as a rich discursive and imaginative space for exploring educational ideas. Framing Golden Age detective fiction as a genre profoundly concerned with learning, this book will be highly relevant reading for academics, postgraduate students and scholars involved in the fields of English language arts, twentieth-century literature and the theories of learning more broadly. Those interested in detective fiction and interdisciplinary literary studies will also find the volume of interest.

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Running Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0762442670

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The Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction by Mike Ashley Pdf

Ever since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle delighted readers with the fictional genius detective, Sherlock Holmes, crime fiction has been plumbed by mystery writers everywhere. This volume of 12 stories spans crime from the Bronze Age to World War II, and will appeal to the current readers of The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures and Best British Mysteries.

Author : Anne McKendry
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476666716

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Medieval Crime Fiction by Anne McKendry Pdf

Combining elements of medievalism, the historical novel and the detective narrative, medieval crime fiction capitalizes upon the appeal of all three--the most famous examples being Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose (one of the best-selling books ever published) and Ellis Peters' endearing Brother Cadfael series. Hundreds of other novels and series fill out the genre, in settings ranging from the so-called Celtic Enlightenment in seventh-century Ireland to the ruthless Inquisition in fourteenth-century France to the mean streets of medieval London. The detectives are an eclectic group, including weary ex-crusaders, former Knights Templar, enterprising monks and nuns, and historical poets such as Geoffrey Chaucer. This book investigates the enduring popularity of the largely unexamined genre and explores its social, cultural and political contexts.

Author : Scott McCracken
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0719047595

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Pulp by Scott McCracken Pdf

Bringing together chapters on the bestseller, detective fiction, popular romance, science fiction and horror, this text provides an account of the cultural theories that have informed the study of popular fiction.

Author : Chris Raczkowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Crime in literature
ISBN : 1107578817

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A History of American Crime Fiction by Chris Raczkowski Pdf

Author : Laura E. Nym Mayhall,Elizabeth Prevost
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783031071591

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British Murder Mysteries, 1880-1965 by Laura E. Nym Mayhall,Elizabeth Prevost Pdf

British Murder Mysteries, 1880-1965: Facts and Fictions conceptualizes detective fiction as an archive, i.e., a trove of documents and sources to be used for historical interpretation. By framing the genre as a shifting set of values, definitions, and practices, the book historicizes the contested meanings of analytical categories like class, race, gender, nation, and empire that have been applied to the forms and functions of detection. Three organizing themes structure this investigation: fictive facticity, genre fluidity, and conservative modernity. This volume thus shows how British detective fiction from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century both shaped and was shaped by its social, cultural, and political contexts and the lived experience of its authors and readers at critical moments in time.

Author : Megan Hoffman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137536662

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Gender and Representation in British ‘Golden Age’ Crime Fiction by Megan Hoffman Pdf

This book provides an original and compelling analysis of the ways in which British women’s golden age crime narratives negotiate the conflicting social and cultural forces that influenced depictions of gender in popular culture in the 1920s until the late 1940s. The book explores a wide variety of texts produced both by writers who have been the focus of a relatively large amount of critical attention, such as Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham, but also those who have received comparatively little, such as Christianna Brand, Ngaio Marsh, Gladys Mitchell, Josephine Tey and Patricia Wentworth. Through its original readings, this book explores the ambivalent nature of modes of femininity depicted in golden age crime fiction, and shows that seemingly conservative resolutions are often attempts to provide a ‘modern-yet-safe’ solution to the conflicts raised in the texts.

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781613162156

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Golden Age Detective Stories by Otto Penzler Pdf

The greatest detectives of the Golden Age investigate the most puzzling crimes of the era Sometimes, the police aren’t the best suited to solve a crime. Depending on the case, you may find that a retired magician, a schoolteacher, a Broadway producer, or a nun have the necessary skills to suss out a killer. Or, in other cases, a blind veteran, or a publisher, or a hard-drinking attorney, or a mostly-sober attorney… or, indeed, any sort of detective you could think of might be able to best the professionals when it comes to comprehending strange and puzzling murders. At least, that’s what the authors from the Golden Age of American mystery fiction would have you think. For decades in the middle of the twentieth century, the country’s best-selling authors produced delightful tales in which all types of eccentrics used rarified knowledge to interpret confounding clues. And for even longer, in the decades that have followed, these characters have continued to entertain new audiences with every new generation that discovers them. Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler selects some of the greatest American short stories from era. With authors including Ellery Queen, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Anthony Boucher, this collection is a treat for those who know and love this celebrated period in literary history, and a great introduction to its best writers for the uninitiated. Includes discussion guide questions for use in book clubs.

Author : John Scaggs
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0415318254

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Crime Fiction by John Scaggs Pdf

Provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for all those studying crime fiction.