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Author: LeRoy Panek
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780879721329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetective stories should be examined from a literary point of view, with special attention to literary history and to materials and patterns from which the writers created their fictions. This book sheds new light into the fascinating field of detective fiction.
Author: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada (Ottawa)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0300099460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading scholars shed light on the development of genre painting in this heavily illustrated volume.
Author: Marianne Roland Michel
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the life of the eighteenth-century French artist, examines his major drawings and paintings, and assesses his contribution to art.
Author: Guy M. Townsend
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2010-08-01
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 1434403912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mystery Fancier, Volume 4 Number 4, July/August, 1980, contains: "Little Old Men With Whom I'm Only Slightly Acquainted," by Ellen Nehr, "The Dilemma of Datcher," by E. F. Bleiler, "Spy Series Characters in Hardback, Part III," by Barry Van Tilburg, "Leslie Charteris and the Saint: Five Decades of Partnership," by Jan Alexandersson and Iwan Hedman, and "The Great Merlini," by Fred Dueren.
Author: George N. Dove
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780879727321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs every detective novel addict knows, there's no greater high than figuring out "whodunit" before the final revelation, resulting in the kind of intellectual satisfaction a shot of bourbon can never offer. Dove takes this reader/writer play to a new level by critically assessing the genre through the principles of Reader Response Theory, outlining the detective story as a special case of reading governed by rules and a specialized formula that traces its genealogy back to Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Bruce Shaw
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2013-12-19
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1476613966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an appreciation of selected authors who make extensive use of humor in English detective/crime fiction. Works using humor as an amelioration of the serious have their heyday in the Golden Age of crime writing but they belong also to a long tradition. There is an identifiable lineage of humorous writing in crime fiction that ranges from mild wit to outright farce, burlesque, even slapstick. A mix of entertainment with instruction is a tradition in English letters. English crime fiction writers of the era circa 1913 to 1940 were raised in the mainstream literary tradition but turned their skills to detective fiction. And they are the humorists of the genre. This book is not an exhaustive study but an introduction into the best produced by the most capable and enjoyable authors. What the humorists seek is to surprise the reader by overturning their expectations using a repertoire of stylistic conceits and motifs (recurring incidents, devices, references). Humor has a liberating effect but is concerned too with "comic contrast" through ugliness and caricature. In crime fiction one effect is intellectual pleasure at solving (or attempting to solve) a puzzle. Another is entertainment but with serious undertones.
Author: John C. Tibbetts
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2021-09-24
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1476684979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a critical study of the great British man of letters G.K. Chesterton, devoted to the novels, stories and essays that explore the darker fringes of his wild imagination. "Everything is different in the dark," wrote Chesterton; "perhaps you don't know how terrible a truth that is." Chesterton's use of the theme of "gargoyles" provides the thematic structure of the book. It covers the detective stories of Father Brown and others, the locked rooms and miracle crimes in his writing, his status as a science fiction writer, and the riddles and paradoxes of three works--Job, The Man Who Was Thursday, and the play The Surprise. This volume also includes an interlude about Chesterton and Jorge Luis Borges and a robust appendix including interviews about the formation of Ignatius Press's Collected Chesterton.
Author: Lisa M. Dresner
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-12-24
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1476607737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book the author examines how women detectives are portrayed in film, in literature and on TV. Chapters examine the portrayal of female investigators in each of these four genres: the Gothic novel, the lesbian detective novel, television and film.
Author: Jem Bloomfield
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 3031583396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald Posner
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0801415713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is the definitive study of the great painter Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), best known for his exquisite fetes galantes--scenes of the pastoral pleasures of elegant society. Until now, critical interpretations of this remarkable artist have been shaped by essentially Romantic views. Donald Posner provides a reassessment of the life and work of Watteau; his account is enriched with reproductions of all of Watteau's paintings and major studies.
