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Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349711594

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Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction by Lisa Hopkins Pdf

This book explores why crime fiction so often alludes to Shakespeare. It ranges widely over a variety of authors including classic golden age crime writers such as the four ‘queens of crime’ (Allingham, Christie, Marsh, Sayers), Nicholas Blake and Edmund Crispin, as well as more recent authors such as Reginald Hill, Kate Atkinson and Val McDermid. It also looks at the fondness for Shakespearean allusion in a number of television crime series, most notably Midsomer Murders, Inspector Morse and Lewis, and considers the special sub-genre of detective stories in which a lost Shakespeare play is found. It shows how Shakespeare facilitates discussions about what constitutes justice, what authorises the detective to track down the villain, who owns the countryside, national and social identities, and the question of how we measure cultural value.

Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137538758

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Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction by Lisa Hopkins Pdf

This book explores why crime fiction so often alludes to Shakespeare. It ranges widely over a variety of authors including classic golden age crime writers such as the four ‘queens of crime’ (Allingham, Christie, Marsh, Sayers), Nicholas Blake and Edmund Crispin, as well as more recent authors such as Reginald Hill, Kate Atkinson and Val McDermid. It also looks at the fondness for Shakespearean allusion in a number of television crime series, most notably Midsomer Murders, Inspector Morse and Lewis, and considers the special sub-genre of detective stories in which a lost Shakespeare play is found. It shows how Shakespeare facilitates discussions about what constitutes justice, what authorises the detective to track down the villain, who owns the countryside, national and social identities, and the question of how we measure cultural value.

Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare

Author : Alexa Alice Joubin,Victoria Bladen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030937836

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Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare by Alexa Alice Joubin,Victoria Bladen Pdf

Allusions to Shakespeare haunt our contemporary culture in a myriad of ways, whether through brief references or sustained intertextual engagements. Shakespeare’s plays and motifs have been appropriated in fragmentary forms onstage and onscreen since motion pictures were invented in 1893. This collection of essays extends beyond a US-UK axis to bring together an international group of scholars to explore Shakespearean appropriations in unexpected contexts in lesser-known films and television shows in India, Brazil, Russia, France, Australia, South Africa, East-Central Europe and Italy, with reference to some filmed stage works.

Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030657604

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Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction by Lisa Hopkins Pdf

Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction offers an overview of the ways in which the past is brought back to the surface and influences the present in British detective fiction written between 1920 and 2020. Exploring a range of authors including Agatha Christie, Patricia Wentworth, Val McDermid, Sarah Caudwell, Georgette Heyer, Dorothy Dunnett, Jonathan Stroud and Ben Aaronovitch, Lisa Hopkins argues that both the literal and literary disinterment of the past use elements of the national past to interrogate the present. As such, in the texts discussed, uncovering the truth about an individual crime is also typically an uncovering of a more general connection between the present and the past. Whether detective novels explore murders on archaeological digs, hauntings, cold crimes or killings at Christmas, Hopkins explores the underlying message that you cannot understand the present unless you understand the past.

Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction

Author : Samantha J. Rayner,Kim Wilkins
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781787357600

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Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction by Samantha J. Rayner,Kim Wilkins Pdf

The Nonesuch is the name of one of Georgette Heyer’s most famous novels. It means a person or thing without equal, and Georgette Heyer is certainly that. Her historical works inspire a fiercely loyal, international readership and are championed by literary figures such as A. S. Byatt and Stephen Fry. Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction brings together an eclectic range of chapters from scholars all over the world to explore the contexts of Heyer’s career. Divided into four parts – gender; genre; sources; and circulation and reception – the volume draws on scholarship on Heyer and her contemporaries to show how her work sits in a chain of influence, and why it remains pertinent to current conversations on books and publishing in the twenty-first century. Heyer’s impact on science fiction is accounted for, as are the milieu she was writing in, the many subsequent works that owe Heyer’s writing a debt, and new methods for analysing these enduring books. From the gothic to data science, there is something for everyone in this volume; a celebration of Heyer’s ‘nonesuch’ status amongst historical novelists, proving that she and her contemporary women writers deserve to be read (and studied) as more than just guilty pleasures.

Allusion in Detective Fiction

Author : Jem Bloomfield
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3031583388

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Allusion in Detective Fiction by Jem Bloomfield Pdf

This study argues that allusion is a central part of classic British detective fiction. It demonstrates the fraught status of Shakespeare and the Bible during the Golden Age of the British detective novel, and the cultural currents which novelists navigated whilst alluding to them. The first part traces the complex web of allusions to Shakespeare and the Bible which appear in the novels of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, examining the meanings these allusions produce. The second part explores the way in which Sayers’ own collection of detective novels became a canon, on which later novelists exercised those same allusive practices. It studies allusions to Sayers’ novels throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, from Gladys Mitchell and P.D. James to Reginald Hill and Sujata Massey. This study reveals allusion as a shaping force at the origin of the classic British detective novel, and a continuing element in its identity.

Jane Austen and William Shakespeare

Author : Marina Cano,Rosa García-Periago
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030256890

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Jane Austen and William Shakespeare by Marina Cano,Rosa García-Periago Pdf

This volume explores the multiple connections between the two most canonical authors in English, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare. The collection reflects on the historical, literary, critical and filmic links between the authors and their fates. Considering the implications of the popular cult of Austen and Shakespeare, the essays are interdisciplinary and comparative: ranging from Austen’s and Shakespeare’s biographies to their presence in the modern vampire saga Twilight, passing by Shakespearean echoes in Austen’s novels and the authors’ afterlives on the improv stage, in wartime cinema, modern biopics and crime fiction. The volume concludes with an account of the Exhibition “Will & Jane” at the Folger Shakespeare Library, which literally brought the two authors together in the autumn of 2016. Collectively, the essays mark and celebrate what we have called the long-standing “love affair” between William Shakespeare and Jane Austen—over 200 years and counting.

Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2024)

Author : Caroline Reitz,Elizabeth Foxwell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781476654423

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Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2024) by Caroline Reitz,Elizabeth Foxwell Pdf

For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.

Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031298493

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Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction by Lisa Hopkins Pdf

From Sherlock Holmes onwards, fictional detectives use lenses: Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction argues that these visual aids are metaphors for ways of seeing, and that they help us to understand not only individual detectives’ methods but also the kinds of cultural work detective fiction may do. It is sometimes regarded as a socially conservative form, and certainly the enduring popularity of ‘Golden Age’ writers such as Christie, Sayers, Allingham and Marsh implies a strong element of nostalgia in the appeal of the genre. The emphasis on visual aids, however, suggests that solving crime is not a simple matter of uncovering truth but a complex, sophisticated and inherently subjective process, and thus challenges any sense of comforting certainties. Moreover, the value of eye-witness testimony is often troubled in detective fiction by use of the phrase ‘the ocular proof’, whose origin in Shakespeare’s Othello reminds us that Othello is manipulated by Iago into misinterpreting what he sees. The act of seeing thus comes to seem ideological and provisional, and Lisa Hopkins argues that the kind of visual aid selected by each detective is an index of his particular propensities and biases.

Shakespeare and Millennial Fiction

Author : Andrew James Hartley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107171725

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Shakespeare and Millennial Fiction by Andrew James Hartley Pdf

This book analyses the ways contemporary fiction writers draw on Shakespeare - the man, his work and his cultural legacy.

Shakespeare Survey 74

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781009041089

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Shakespeare Survey 74 by Emma Smith Pdf

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major British performances. The theme for Volume 74 is 'Shakespeare and Education. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/shakespeare-survey This fully searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic and save and bookmark their results.

Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Fall 2022)

Author : Elizabeth Foxwell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476647746

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Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Fall 2022) by Elizabeth Foxwell Pdf

For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.

Arden of Faversham: A Critical Reader

Author : Peter Kirwan,Duncan Salkeld
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350270190

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Arden of Faversham: A Critical Reader by Peter Kirwan,Duncan Salkeld Pdf

One of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden. This Critical Reader presents the first collection of essays specifically focused upon Arden of Faversham. It highlights the way in which this important play from the early 1590s stands at several different critical intersections. Focused research chapters propose new directions for exploring the play in the light of ecocriticism, genre studies, critical race studies and narratives of dispossession. It also looks forward to Arden of Faversham's role and status in a less author-centred critical climate. Chapters explore how this anonymous and canonically marginal play has been approached in the past by scholars and theatre-makers and the frameworks that have offered productive insight into its unique features. The volume includes chapters covering a wide range of critical discourses and resources available for its study, as well as offering practical approaches to the play in the classroom.

Reading the Road, from Shakespeare's Crossways to Bunyan's Highways

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781474454131

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Reading the Road, from Shakespeare's Crossways to Bunyan's Highways by Lisa Hopkins Pdf

This book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture

Knowledge in English

Author : Victoria Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000299045

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Knowledge in English by Victoria Elliott Pdf

Focusing on a key area of debate within the world of secondary English, the ‘knowledge-based curriculum’, this book explores in detail the question of knowledge in the teaching of English in secondary schools, drawing on specific concrete cases and a range of academic theories. Knowledge in English also investigates how to teach both facts and skills through the required texts to produce a balanced educational experience. Elliott brings together classic texts with contemporary knowledge and viewpoints to critically examine teaching in the English literature classroom, and situates them within the broader cultural and political context. The book includes discussions on race and gender in texts, Shakespeare and his influence, facts and emotions in poetry, and reading experiences. Knowledge in English is a foundational and accessible guide for researchers, practitioners, teacher educators and teachers around the world. It is a valuable resource for those involved in the English curriculum to keep the subject relevant and useful to students in the contemporary classroom.