[PDF] A History Of American Crime Fiction eBook

Author : Chris Raczkowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108547338

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A History of American Crime Fiction places crime fiction within a context of aesthetic practices and experiments, intellectual concerns, and historical debates generally reserved for canonical literary history. Toward that end, the book is divided into sections that reflect the periods that commonly organize American literary history, with chapters highlighting crime fiction's reciprocal relationships with early American literature, romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. It surveys everything from 17th-century execution sermons, the detective fiction of Harriet Spofford and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, to the films of David Lynch, HBO's The Sopranos, and the podcast Serial, while engaging a wide variety of critical methods. As a result, this book expands crime fiction's significance beyond the boundaries of popular genres and explores the symbiosis between crime fiction and canonical literature that sustains and energizes both.

Author : Leslie S Klinger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1666 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1681779269

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Classic American Crime Writing of the 1920s—including House Without a Key, The Benson Murder Case, The Tower Treasure, The Roman Hat Mystery, The Tower Treasure, and Little Caesar—offers some of the very best of that decade’s writing. Earl Derr Biggers wrote about Charlie Chan, a Chinese-American detective, at a time when racism was rampant. S. S. Van Dine invented Philo Vance, an effete, rich amateur psychologist who flourished while America danced and the stock market rose. Edwin Stratemeyer, a man of mystery himself, singlehandedly created the juvenile mystery, with the beloved Hardy Boys series. The quintessential American detective Ellery Queen leapt onto the stage, to remain popular for fifty years. W. R. Burnett, created the indelible character of Rico, the first gangster antihero. Each of the five novels included is presented in its original published form, with extensive historical and cultural annotations and illustrations added by Edgar-winning editor Leslie S. Klinger, allowing the reader to experience the story to its fullest. Klinger's detailed foreword gives an overview of the history of American crime writing from its beginnings in the early years of America to the twentieth century.

Author : Hans Bertens
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 2001-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0230508316

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This highly accessible, lively and informative study gives a clear and comprehensive overview of recent trends in American crime fiction. Building on a discussion of the immediate predecessors, Bertens and D'haen focus on the work of popular and award-winning authors of the last fifteen years. Particular attention is given to writers who have reworked established conventions and explored new directions, especially women and those from ethnic minorities.

Author : Leonard Cassuto
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231126905

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Leonard Cassuto's cultural history of the hard-boiled crime genre recovers the fascinating link between tough guys and sensitive women

Author : Catherine Ross Nickerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521136067

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This Companion examines the range of American crime fiction from execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programmes like The Sopranos.

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Running Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780762442676

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Ever since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle delighted readers with the fictional genius detective, Sherlock Holmes, crime fiction has been plumbed by mystery writers everywhere. This volume of 12 stories spans crime from the Bronze Age to World War II, and will appeal to the current readers of The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures and Best British Mysteries.

Author : Woody Haut
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN :

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Neon Noir, the follow-up to Woody Haut's highly regarded Pulp Culture, brings the story of American crime fiction and film uptodate. From the Kennedy assassination to the Vietnam War and Watergate, through Reaganomics to Irangate and Whitewater, Neon Noir is a roller-coaster ride through the American nightmare. Haut investigates the dark side of America through the work of crime writers such as James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard, Walter Mosley, James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, James Sallis, George Pelecanos, Charles Willeford, Jerome Charyn, Sara Paretsky, Vicki Hendricks, KC Constantine, George V Higgins and James Crumley. Mapping the fissures and scars of America's psychogeography, its morally ambiguous shadowlands, Neon Noir also considers the difference between past and present hardboilers, the impact of war and journalism on noirists, the portrayal of cities, the aesthetics of crime fiction, and the changing relationship between the books and the films. Like Pulp Culture, Neon Noir is set to become the reference book on its subject.

Author : Charles J. Rzepka
Publisher : Polity
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780745629421

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'Detective Fiction' is a clear and compelling look at some of the best known, yet least-understood characters and texts of the modern day. Undergraduate students of Detective and Crime Fiction and of genre fiction in general, will find this book essential reading.

Author : Ray B. Browne
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2013-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879728817

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Readers of detective stories are turning more toward historical crime fiction to learn both what everyday life was like in past societies and how society coped with those who broke the laws and restrictions of the times. The crime fiction treated here ranges from ancient Egypt through classical Greece and Rome; from medieval and renaissance China and Europe through nineteenth-century England and America. Topics include: Ellis Peter’s Brother Cadfael; Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose; Susanna Gregory’s Doctor Matthew Bartholomew; Peter Heck’s Mark Twain as detective; Anne Perry and her Victorian-era world; Caleb Carr’s works; and Elizabeth Peter’s Egyptologist-adventurer tales.

Author : S. Powell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 35,83 MB
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137031662

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100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre.