[PDF] Critical Survey Of Mystery And Detective Fiction Past And Present Mystery And Detective Fiction Roots Of Mystery And Detective Fiction eBook

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Page : 2387 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9781587654022

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This is a comprehensive survey of mystery and detective fiction that covers more than 390 writers and includes overviews on more than three dozen aspects of the genre. Continuing the Salem Press tradition of Critical Survey series, Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction, Revised Edition provides detailed analyses of the lives and writings of major contributors to the fascinating literary subgenre of mystery and detective fiction. This greatly expanded five-volume set is the first full revision of a work that originally appeared in 1988. This new edition updates or replaces all the original articles and adds entirely new articles on 118 more authors, raising the total to 393 articles. It also adds 38 entirely new overview essays and 5 new appendixes. Covered here are such well-known mystery writers as Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett, Edgar Allan Poe, and Dorothy L. Sayers. New to this edition are such venerable writers as Louisa May Alcott, Edward Stratemeyer, and Margaret Truman. Popular contemporary writers, such as Mary Higgins Clark, Patricia Cornwell, John Dunning, John Grisham, Thomas Harris, Rolando Hinojosa, Scott Turow, J.K. Rowling, and Stuart Woods and also included. This set is designed to meet the needs of secondary school and college undergraduate students. Articles on authors are arranged alphabetically, by the names or pen names under which the authors publish their mystery fiction. Each article is formatted identically, opening with ready-reference data on the author's name, pseudonyms, birth and death dates and places, and types of plots. The main text of the article is broken into three parts; Contribution sums up the author's place in the mystery and detective fiction genre and discusses what sets the author apart from others in the field. Biography, provides a brief summary of the author's life.

Author : Frank Northen Magill
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Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 1988
Category : AUTHORS--BIOGRAPHY.
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Presents critical studies of more than 270 authors of detective and mystery fiction from around the world dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day.

Author : Frank Northen Magill
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Page : 472 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Authors
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Presents critical studies of more than 290 authors of detective and mystery fiction from around the world dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day.

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File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9781780341460

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Provides detailed analyses of the lives and writings of major contributors to the fascinating literary subgenre of mystery and detective fiction.

Author : Frank Northen Magill
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Page : 472 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Authors
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Presents critical studies of more than 270 authors of detective and mystery fiction from around the world dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day.

Author : Casey Cothran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317435230

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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.