[PDF] Murder From An Academic Angle eBook

Author : Heta Pyrhönen
Publisher : Camden House (NY)
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781879751811

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Dr Pyrhönen's innovative study is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the academic reception of the eternally popular detective story; the discussion, using both a chronological and thematic approach, considers the changing views, and methods of analysis, of this fascinating genre. The author begins by tracing the development of detective fiction criticism from its beginnings, often written by its best authors, such as Dorothy L. Sayers; goes on to examine the structuralists' and narratologists' interest in the genre as a test case for various theories of reading; and finally outlines the current debates about the ideological underpinnings of detective fiction and its relationship to 'serious' literature. This book will be of interest not only to students and scholars of literature, but also to the countless devotees of the detective story. DR PYRHÖNENteaches literature at the University of Helsinki in the Department of Comparative Literature and Theatre Research.

Author : Heta Pyrhönen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780802082671

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Both detective and reader attempt to solve the crimes in detective novels, relying on the same motifs but employing different narrative interpretations to do so. A unique and lucid examination of a complex genre.

Author : Mimi Okabe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1350325104

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Little is known about the boy detective in Japanese detective fiction despite his popularity. Who is he, and what mysteries does he unveil about cultural understandings of youth in Japanese society? Manga, Murder and Mystery answers these questions by exploring the figure of the shonen (boy) detective in commercially successful manga series such as Detective Conan, The Case Files of Young Kindaichi, Death Note and Moriarty the Patriot. The book explores how these popular works tackle the crisis of young adult culture within the socioeconomic climate of Japan's 'lost decade' and Heisei era, broadly speaking. Mimi Okabe shows how detective manga materialized in a nation undergoing a state of crisis and how the boy detective emerged as a site of national trauma to address perceived youth problems but in thematically different ways.

Author : Elizabeth Foxwell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 25,47 MB
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476630216

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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.

Author : Laura L. Behling
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Lesbianism
ISBN : 9780252026270

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Focuses on late 19th- and early 20th-century American society, where, the author says, "the beginnings of modern sexuality and psychology intersect with the foundations of modern womanhood...." Suffragettes demanding social and political independence were often transformed by literature and the popular press into "masculine women" and female sexual "inverts." While Judith Halberstam's Female Masculinities (1998), say, focused on contemporary society and the idea of male masculinity, Behling (English, Gustavus Adolphus College) exclusively addresses an earlier time when sartorial and political masculinity in relation to the female body was often interpreted as a medical as well as political condition. Behling's documents include Gertrude Stein's early novel Fernhurst, Henry James' Bostonians, Dr. William Lee Howard's novel The Perverts, newspaper accounts, Hellen Hull's "Fire," Sherwood Anderson's Poor White, and the artwork that accompanied Djuna Barnes's satiric Ladies Almanack. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : D. J. H. Jones
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780820315027

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After two mysterious deaths at Chicago's Hotel Fairfax during the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, homicide detective Boaz Dixon enlists the aid of Yale assistant professor Nancy Cook to guide him through the academic world during his in

Author : Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 2491 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Dorothy L. Sayers was an English crime writer from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Sayers is best known for her mysteries featuring English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. She also created few more characters such as detective Montague Egg and forensic analyst Sir James Lubbock. Table of Contents: Lord Peter Wimsey Series: Biographical Introduction Novels: Whose Body? Clouds of Witness Unnatural Death The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Strong Poison The Five Red Herrings Have His Carcase Murder Must Advertise The Nine Tailors Gaudy Night Busman's Honeymoon Lord Peter Views the Body: The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers The Entertaining Episode of the Article in Question The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleager's Will The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps That Ran The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste The Learned Adventure of the Dragon's Head The Piscatorial Farce of the Stolen Stomach The Unsolved Puzzle of the Man with No Face The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba Other Lord Peter Wimsey Stories: The Image in the Mirror The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey The Queen's Square The Necklace of Pearls In the Teeth of the Evidence Absolutely Elsewhere Striding Folly The Haunted Policeman Talboys Montague Egg Stories: The Poisoned Dow '08 Sleuths on the Scent Murder in the Morning One Too Many Murder at Pentecost Maher-Shalal-Hashbaz A Shot at Goal Dirt Cheap Bitter Almonds False Weight The Professor's Manuscript Other Novels & Stories: The Documents in the Case The Man Who Knew How The Fountain Plays The Milk-Bottles Dilemma An Arrow O'er the House Scrawns Nebuchadnezzar The Inspiration of Mr. Budd Blood Sacrifice Suspicion The Leopard Lady The Cyprian Cat

Author : Larry N. Landrum
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 1999-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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A guide to research on American mystery and detective novels emphasizing the historical development of the genre and major critical approaches to the literature.

Author : Steve Greenfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,57 MB
Release : 2001-09-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 113533966X

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First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Dorsey Fiske
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312002039

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