Gender Bending Detective Fiction: A Critical Analysis of Selected Works, Heather Duerre Humann

Автор: Gunn James, Page Michael R.
Название: Modern Science Fiction: A Critical Analysis: The Seminal 1951 Thesis, with a New Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: 1476673195 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476673196
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Acknowledged as one of the founding figures of science fiction scholarship and teaching, and one of the genre’s leading writers, James Gunn in 1951 wrote what is likely the first master’s thesis on modern science fiction, Modern Science Fiction: A Critical Analysis. It achieved some degree of legendary status when portions appeared in the short-lived pulp magazine Dynamic, but has otherwise remained unavailable for scholars and general readers of science fiction. Appearing for the first time in book form, this early critical work by a science fiction master is an important historical addition to the field of science fiction studies. Gunn’s observations on many of the classic Golden Age stories of the 1940s, before they were classic, highlight this exuberant and astute early academic critical assessment of science fiction. Here the reader will witness the development of Gunn’s critical perspective that informed his essential genre history Alternate Worlds and the monumental anthology series The Road to Science Fiction. Michael R. Page’s introduction and commentary show the historical significance of Gunn’s work and frame it within the context of the later development of science fiction criticism and theory.

Автор: Sam Naidu, Elizabeth le Roux
Название: A Survey of South African Crime Fiction: Critical Analysis and Publishing History
ISBN: 1869143558 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781869143558
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Описание: Crime fiction continues to be a burgeoning literary category in post-apartheid South Africa, with more new authors, titles and themes emerging every year. This book is the first comprehensive survey of South African crime fiction. It provides an overview of this phenomenally successful literary category, and places it within its wider social and historical context.

Автор: Bruce Harding
Название: Ngaio Marsh: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
ISBN: 0786460326 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786460328
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Описание: Considered one of the "Queens of Crime", Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982) was a gifted writer and a celebrated author of classic British detective fiction, as well as a successful theatre director. This book explores the fascinating literary world of Dame Ngaio.

Автор: Paul Di Filippo
Название: Critical Survey of Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature
ISBN: 1682172783 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682172780
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Описание: Provides descriptions of hundreds of famous and well-regarded works of science fiction and fantasy, summarizing plots and analysing the works in terms of their contributions to literature. Each article discusses an individual book or series and often comments on other works by the same author.

Автор: Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
Название: Scandinavian Crime Fiction
ISBN: 1472527747 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472527745
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Sj wall and Wahl 's Novel of a Crime, Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum series, Peter H eg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Henning Mankell's Wallander books, Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and TV series such as The Killing. With its focus on the function of crime fiction in both reflecting and shaping the late-modern Scandinavian welfare societies, this book is essential for readers, viewers and fans of contemporary crime writing.

Автор: Laird R. Blackwell
Название: The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton: A Critical Study of the Father Brown Stories and Other Detective Fiction
ISBN: 1476671826 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476671826
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Описание: G.K. Chesterton`s Father Brown stories are widely considered to be some of the finest detective short stories ever published, offering vivid writing, brilliant puzzles, biting social criticism, and metaphysical explorations of life`s great questions. This book presents the first in-depth analysis of his works both as classics of the detective genre and as meaningful philosophical inquiries.

Автор: Ineko Sata
Название: Five Faces of Japanese Feminism: Crimson and Other Works
ISBN: 0824866142 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824866143
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Описание: This exquisite collection of short fiction by Sata Ineko (1904–1998) offers readers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of women rarely dignified in fiction: glamorous café waitresses, feisty communist activists, a tortured novelist, a soldier’s wife, and single women in Japan’s Korean colony. Her delicately penned portraits challenge the tired, erotic tropes of the geisha and schoolgirl, while delving into the dilemmas women themselves faced in their personal and professional relationships.The stories and novella translated here span a period of two decades and the most important events and themes in twentieth-century history. “Café Kyoto” (1929) takes up the glamorous, if tragic, lives of café waitresses in the wake of the late 1920s Depression. “Tears of a Factory Girl in the Union Leadership” (1931) offers a unique portrait of a woman who works with the underground Communist Party. “The Scent of Incense” (1942), written as a work of “home front” literature, was meant to help mobilize women as productive workers and supportive housewives during World War II. “White and Purple” (1950), one of Sata’s rare postcolonial works penned just after the outbreak of the Korean War, reflects on the psychological damage inflicted on women during Japan’s occupation of Korea. Sata’s first novella, Crimson (1936–1938), joins a long tradition of women’s writing in Japan that sought to assert women’s “liberation” from what was seen as the oppressively patriarchal institution of marriage.Translator Samuel Perry’s critical introduction weaves the story of Sata’s life into an examination of the historical and cultural milieu that helped to generate her stories about working women, their lives in the workplace and in the home. As the celebrated author herself once wrote, “The kinds of womanhood available today exist precisely because literary masters of different ages and cultures have drawn us to them: the woman we pity, the woman with a heart of gold, the cruel woman, the clever woman, the hen-pecker, the cheapskate, and the ‘good wife wise mother.’ As terms we use to describe the kinds of women who exist in the world today, they have simply outgrown their usefulness.

Автор: Vera Gray Fiona
Название: Men`s Intrusion, Women`s Embodiment: A Critical Analysis of Street Harassment
ISBN: 1138951595 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138951594
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Based on original empirical research, this book is the first of its kind to conduct a feminist phenomenological analysis of the experience for women of men`s stranger intrusions in public spaces. It suggests that intrusion from unknown men is a fundamental factor in how women understand and enact their embodied selfhood.

Автор: Worthington
Название: The Rise of the Detective in Early Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction
ISBN: 1403941084 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403941084
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Detection existed in fiction long before Poe and Doyle. In this revealing book, Heather Worthington combines scholarly and archival study with theoretically informed analysis to unearth the foundations of detective fiction.

Автор: Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
Название: Scandinavian Crime Fiction
ISBN: 1472522753 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472522757
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Sj wall and Wahl 's Novel of a Crime, Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum series, Peter H eg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Henning Mankell's Wallander books, Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and TV series such as The Killing. With its focus on the function of crime fiction in both reflecting and shaping the late-modern Scandinavian welfare societies, this book is essential for readers, viewers and fans of contemporary crime writing.

Автор: Bending
Название: Green Retreats
ISBN: 1107040027 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107040021
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Green Retreats presents a lively and beautifully illustrated account of eighteenth-century women in their gardens, in the context of the larger history of their retirement from the world – whether willed or enforced – and of their engagement with the literature of gardening. Beginning with a survey of cultural representations of the woman in the garden, Stephen Bending goes on to tell the stories, through their letters, diaries and journals, of some extraordinary eighteenth-century women including Elizabeth Montagu and the Bluestocking circle, the gardening neighbours Lady Caroline Holland and Lady Mary Coke, and Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough, renowned for her scandalous withdrawal from the social world. The emphasis on how gardens were used, as well as designed, allows the reader to rethink the place of women in the eighteenth century, and understand what was at stake for those who stepped beyond the flower garden and created their own landscapes.

Автор: McKendry Anne
Название: Medieval Crime Fiction: A Critical Overview
ISBN: 1476666717 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476666716
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Описание: Combining elements of medievalism, the historical novel and the detective narrative, medieval crime fiction capitalizes upon the appeal of all three. This book investigates the enduring popularity of the largely unexamined genre and explores its social, cultural and political contexts.