| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 263 pages) |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Contents |
On crime and detective fiction; perversities and pleasures of the texts / Rebecca Martin -- Critical contexts : From mean streets to the imagined world: the development of detective fiction / Ruth Anne Thompson and Jean Fitzgerald -- "Your sin will find you out": critical perceptions of mystery fiction / Elizabeth Foxwell -- From "The case of the pressed flowers" to the serial killer's torture chamber: the use and function of crime fiction sub-genres in Steig Larsson's The girl with the dragon tattoo / Kerstin Bergman -- A comparative assessment: Rudolph Fisher's The conjure-man dies, Chester Himes' Blind man with a pistol, and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo jumbo / Nolisha F. Crawford -- Critical readings : Five hundred years of Chinese crime fiction / Jeffrey C. Kinkley -- Assimilation, innovation, and dissemination: detective fiction in Japan and East Asia / Amanda Seaman -- Latin American crime fiction / Norlisha F. Crawford -- Criminal welfare states, social consciousness, and critique in Scandinavian crime novels / Sara Karrholm -- From "hard-boiled detective" to "fallen man": the literary lineage and post-war emergence of film noir / Joseph Paul Moser -- The metaphysical detective story / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney -- Native American detective fiction / Rhonda Harris Taylor -- American crime fiction readers and the 3 percent problem / Malcah Effron |
| Summary |
"Among the most popular of literary forms, crime fiction has played a central role in the development of national literatures for than a century. Crime and Detective Fiction examines practices of crime writing in American literature and in regions as far and wide as China, Japan, and Scandinavia. This inclusivity results in a diversity of perspectives, in terms of culture, as well as the significance of point of view in telling the tale of a crime. These readings will challenge perspectives on what constitutes good and evil, and lead readers to reexamine assumptions about community, individual rights, and the structure and purpose of the law itself. Edited by Rebecca Martin, Professor of English at Pace University, this collection, part of the Critical Insights series, examines the richness of the field of crime writing and the many ways in which crime, its depiction, and its investigation cross narrative, national, and other boundaries. Readers will appreciate familiar authors in the genre, such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler, as well as important new additions, most prominently represented by Steig Larrson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This volume will explore the reasons for crime writing's popularity and persistence offered by scholars, critics, and readers in the last two or three hundred years, and challenge long-standing assumptions as to the literary significance of crime and detective fiction."--Publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism
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Crime in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Mystery & Detective.
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Crime in literature
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Detective and mystery stories
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Martin, Rebecca, 1953 April 17- editor.
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| ISBN |
1429838388 |
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9781429838382 |
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