Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers
Author | : NA NA |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 1585 |
Release | : 2015-12-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349813664 |
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Author | : NA NA |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 1585 |
Release | : 2015-12-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349813664 |
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Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : Lesley Henderson |
Publisher | : Chicago : St. James Press |
Total Pages | : 1338 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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**** Cited in Sheehy and BCL3. The foremost reference in the field, completely revised and updated, and now covering about 600 authors, mainly English-language writers whose work appeared during or since the time of Conan Doyle. The entry for each writer consists of a biography, a bibliography, and a signed critical essay. Living authors were invited to add a comment on their work; many of them accepted, and their remarks are both entertaining and enlightening. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : John M. Reilly |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 1094 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312824181 |
Author | : Lee Horsley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199253265 |
Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction aims to enhance understanding of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction by examining a wide variety of the detective and crime fiction produced in Britain and America during the twentieth century. It will be of interest to anyone who enjoys reading crime fiction but is specifically designed with the needs of students in mind. It introduces different theoretical approaches to crime fiction (e.g., formalist, historicist, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, feminist) and will be a useful supplement to a range of crime fiction courses, whether they focus on historical contexts, ideological shifts, the emergence of sub-genres, or the application of critical theories. Forty-seven widely available stories and novels are chosen for detailed discussion. In seeking to illuminate the relationship between different phases of generic development Lee Horsley employs an overlapping historical framework, with sections doubling back chronologically in order to explore the extent to which successive transformations have their roots within the earlier phases of crime writing, as well as responding in complex ways to the preoccupations and anxieties of their own eras. The first part of the study considers the nature and evolution of the main sub-genres of crime fiction: the classic and hard-boiled strands of detective fiction, the non-investigative crime novel (centered on transgressors or victims), and the "mixed" form of the police procedural. The second half of the study examines the ways in which writers have used crime fiction as a vehicle for socio-political critique. These chapters consider the evolution of committed, oppositional strategies, tracing the development of politicized detective and crime fiction, from Depression-era protests against economic injustice to more recent decades which have seen writers launching protests against ecological crimes, rampant consumerism, Reaganomics, racism, and sexism.
Author | : Rosemary Herbert |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 535 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780195072396 |
"Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the gen
Author | : Curtis C. Smith |
Publisher | : Saint James Press |
Total Pages | : 960 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780912289274 |
Author | : Christopher Huang |
Publisher | : Inkshares |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2018-07-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1942645953 |
Featuring a half-Chinese detective protagonist, A GENTLEMAN'S MURDER is a must for those who love mysteries and reads like a Christie-esque whodunit with a modern eye toward the historical treatment of Chinese veterans and post-war racism.
Author | : Eric Ambler |
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Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Balkan Peninsula |
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Author | : Howard Haycraft |
Publisher | : Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2019-02-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0486829308 |
"Genuinely fascinating reading."—The New York Times Book Review "Diverting and patently authoritative."—The New Yorker "Grand and fascinating … a history, a compendium and a critical study all in one, and all first rate."—Rex Stout "A landmark … a brilliant study written with charm and authority."—Ellery Queen "This book is of permanent value. It should be on the shelf of every reader of detective stories."—Erle Stanley Gardner Author Howard Haycraft, an expert in detective fiction, traces the genre's development from the 1840s through the 1940s. Along the way, he charts the innovations of Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the modern influence of George Simenon, Josephine Tey, and others. Additional topics include a survey of the critical literature, a detective story quiz, and a Who's Who in Detection.