Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World, Pearson

Автор: Edwards, Justin D.
Название: Postcolonial literature
ISBN: 0230506747 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230506749
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This Guide analyses the criticism of English-language literature from the major regions of the postcolonial world. Criticism on works by writers such as Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie, is discussed to illustrate the themes and concepts essential to an understanding of postcolonial literature and the development of criticism in the field

Автор: Dech?ne
Название: Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge
ISBN: 3319944681 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319944685
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dech?ne 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.

Название: New Perspectives on Detective Fiction
ISBN: 1138910988 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138910980
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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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.

Автор: Pittard Christopher
Название: Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction
ISBN: 0754668134 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754668138
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, LT Meads, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, this title explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fictions in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity.

Автор: Pittard
Название: Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction
ISBN: 113827626X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138276260
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Описание: Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Christopher Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fictions in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity. The centrality of material and moral purity as a theme of the genre, Pittard argues, both reflected and satirised a contemporary discourse of degeneration in which criminality was equated with dirt and disease and where national boundaries were guarded against the threat of the criminal foreigner. Situating his discussion within the ideologies underpinning George Newnes's Strand Magazine as well as a wide range of nonfiction texts, Pittard demonstrates that the genre was a response to the seductive and impure delights associated with sensation and gothic novels. Further, Pittard suggests that criticism of detective fiction has in turn become obsessed with the idea of purity, thus illustrating how a genre concerned with policing the impure itself became subject to the same fear of contamination. Contributing to the richness of Pittard's project are his discussions of the convergence of medical discourse and detective fiction in the 1890s, including the way social protest movements like the antivivisectionist campaigns and medical explorations of criminality raised questions related to moral purity.

Автор: Fido Martin
Название: The World of Sherlock Holmes: The Facts and Fiction Behind the World`s Greatest Detective
ISBN: 1787391361 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787391369
Издательство: Carlton Books
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Описание: Enter the world of Sherlock Holmes, history's most beloved detective, and explore the reality behind the myth.

The World of Sherlock Holmes delves into the fictional detective's storied history to uncover the myths and reality of the era when Holmes emerged--a time of great advances in crime analysis, medicine, and technology, when Scotland Yard was the king of criminal detection. Along with background on Holmes's origin, fans can explore the various portrayals of the deerstalker detective through the years, concluding with BBC's Sherlock;Elementary, which controversially cast a female Watson; and the action-packed Sherlock Holmes films directed by Guy Ritchie.

Автор: Mason David
Название: Investigating Turkey: Detective Fiction and Turkish Nationalism, 1928-1945
ISBN: 1618116282 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781618116284
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This book shows how Turkish detective fiction written between 1928 and 1945 aided in the top-down process of transmitting concepts of Turkish nationalism to the public by adhering very closely to Kemalist concepts of Turkish nationalism.

Автор: Sloniowski Jeannette, Rose Marilyn
Название: Detecting Canada: Essays on Canadian Detective Fiction, Film, and Television
ISBN: 1554589266 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781554589265
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Описание: The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada contains thirteen essays on many of Canadas most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka. Genres examined range from the well-loved police procedural and the amateur sleuth to those less well known, such as anti-detection and contemporary noir novels. The book looks critically at the esteemed sixties television show Wojeck , as well as the more recent series Da Vincis Inquest , Da Vincis City Hall, and Intelligence , and the controversial Durham County , a critically acclaimed but violent television series that ran successfully in both Canada and the United States. The essays in Detecting Canada look at texts from a variety of perspectives, including postcolonial studies, gender and queer studies, feminist studies, Indigenous studies, and critical race and class studies. Crime fiction, enjoyed by so many around the world, speaks to all of us about justice, citizenship, and important social issues in an uncertain world.

Автор: Trousdale Rachel
Название: Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination
ISBN: 1137346744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137346742
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Using Vladimir Nabokov and Salman Rushdie`s work, this study argues that transnational fiction refuses the simple oppositions of postcolonial theory and suggests the possibility of an inclusive global literature.

Название: New perspectives on detective fiction
ISBN: 1138547654 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138547650
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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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.

Автор: Huggan, Graham
Название: Postcolonial exotic
ISBN: 041525034X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415250344
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis.

Автор: T. Khair
Название: Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires
ISBN: 1349444901 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349444908
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Throughout the ages, vampires have transgressed the borders of gender, race, class, propriety and nations. This collection examines the vampire as a postcolonial and transnational phenomenon that maps the fear of the Other, the ravenous hunger of Empires and the transcultural rifts and intercultural common grounds that make up global society today.