Detective Fiction
Author: Robin W. Winks
Publisher: Foul Play Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13:
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Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction
Author: Debayan Deb Barman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2022-02-28
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1793649588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The import of detective fiction from Britain has influenced generations of writers of Bengali detective fiction. In this anthology of critical essays by scholars on detective fiction, we have divided the contents into three groups. First, there are essays on classic British detective fiction, with essays on Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, P.D.James, Kate Atkinson, and Margery Allingham. The second section is on American hard-boiled fiction with essays on Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. The third section is on Bengali detective fiction with essays on Hemendra Kumar Roy, Saradindu Bandyopadhay and Satyajit Ray. Together, these essays bring three strains of detective fiction into conversation to show the gradual postcolonial attempt of Bengali detective fiction to outgrow colonial influences and create an original and organic tradition of regional and vernacular detective fiction.
Essays on Detective Fiction
Author: Bernard Benstock
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1983-12-15
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1349173134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction
Author: Renée W. Craig-Odders
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2006-03-20
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0786424265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe image of the hard-boiled private investigator from gritty pulp fiction, a terse and mysterious figure, has become increasingly universal as the detective novel crosses more and more borders. A booming genre in Latin America, Spain and other Hispanic cultures, detective fiction has transcended the limitations of its influences. Hispanic authors relatively new to the genre have published novels and series popular with the public, while a number of well-known writers have adapted the genre to reflect the concurrent globalization of modern society and the crimes within it. This volume presents a compilation of 11 critical essays on genero negro--contemporary detective fiction in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian canon. Surveying the last twenty years, the text analyzes emerging trends in this rapidly evolving genre, as well as the mutations and innovations taking place within the style. The first section of the book is dedicated to the detective fiction of Spain and Portugal. The second section surveys works from Latin America and the United States, where topics touch on universal subjects like crime, identity and feminism.
Murder 101
Author: Edward J. Rielly
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009-01-09
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0786436573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays examines how college professors teach the genre of detective fiction and provides insight into how the reader may apply such strategies to his or her own courses. Multi-disciplinary in scope, the essays cover teaching in the areas of literature, law, history, sociology, anthropology, architecture, gender studies, cultural studies, and literary theory. Also included are sample syllabi, writing assignments, questions for further discussion, reading lists, and further aids for course instruction.
Talking About Detective Fiction
Author: P. D. James
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-05-03
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0307743136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James—one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction—gives us a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it. “An avid book-length essay on the roots, ethics and methods of the detective story . . . Her opinions are often surprising and determinedly contrary . . . Refreshingly outspoken.”—The New York Times Examining mystery from top to bottom, beginning with such classics as Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, and then looking at such contemporary masters as Colin Dexter and Henning Mankell, P. D. James goes right to the heart of the genre. Along the way she traces the lives and writing styles of Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, and many more. Here is P.D. James discussing detective fiction as social history, explaining its stylistic components, revealing her own writing process, and commenting on the recent resurgence of detective fiction in modern culture. It is a must have for the mystery connoisseur and casual fan alike.
Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World
Author: Nels Pearson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-22
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1317151968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking up a neglected area in the study of the crime novel, this collection investigates the growing number of writers who adapt conventions of detective fiction to expose problems of law, ethics, and truth that arise in postcolonial and transnational communities. While detective fiction has been linked to imperialism and constructions of race from its earliest origins, recent developments signal the evolution of the genre into a potent framework for narrating the complexities of identity, citizenship, and justice in a postcolonial world. Among the authors considered are Vikram Chandra, Gabriel García Márquez, Michael Ondaatje, Patrick Chamoiseau, Mario Vargas Llosa, Suki Kim, and Walter Mosley. The essays explore detective stories set in Latin America, the Caribbean, India, and North America, including novels that view the American metropolis from the point of view of Asian American, African American, or Latino characters. Offering ten new and original essays by scholars in the field, this volume highlights the diverse employment of detective fictions internationally, and uncovers important political and historical subtexts of popular crime novels.
New Essays on Umberto Eco
Author: Peter Bondanella
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-07-02
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 0521852099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to Eco's contributions to a wide range of academic disciplines, as well as to his literary works.
Detective Fiction
Author: Charles J. Rzepka
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2005-09-30
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780745629421
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'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.
The Historian as Detective
Author: Robin W. Winks
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays by noted historians of the past and present, on the problems of investigation, offer a series of intriguing case studies in the relationship between historical research and detective fiction.
