New Perspectives on Detective Fiction (eBook, PDF)

Mystery Magnified
Redaktion: Cothran, Casey; Cannon, Mercy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book establishes new perspectives on mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, examining how it shapes issues of social destabilization, moral ambiguity, reader complicity, intertextuality, and metafiction. Discussing modern works of mystery and classic pieces, essays examine the effect of mystery on literary forms and on readers, addressing a variety of forms including novels, plays, graphic novels, television series, films, and ipad games. Scholars of mystery and detective fiction, crime fiction, genre studies, and cultural studies will find this book invaluable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317435242
• Artikelnr.: 43980970

Autorenporträt

Casey Cothran is Assistant Professor of English at Winthrop University, US. Mercy Cannon is Associate Professor at Austin Peay State University, US.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Embarking on a New Investigation Casey A. Cothran and Mercy
Cannon Part 1: Disturbing Expectations 1. Troubling Bodies of Evidence:
Gender, Detection, and the Problems of Self-Reinvention in Raymond
Chandler's The Lady in the Lake and Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods
Andrew M. Hakim 2. The Revelations of the Corpse: Interpreting the Body in
the Golden Age Detective Novel Brittain Bright and Rebecca Mills 3. Mapping
the Mark: Tattoos, Crime Fiction, and Gendered Cartographies Kate Watson
Part 2: Implicating Readers 4. The Transtextuality of James M. Cain's
Snyder-Gray Novels: The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and
The Cocktail Waitress Jennie MacDonald 5. P.D. James's Discontinuous
Narrative: A Suitable Job for a Reader Janice Marion Shaw 6. Franz Kafka:
Before the Fictional Process David Ben-Merre Part 3: Indicting Cultures 7.
J.D. Robb's Police Procedurals and the Critique of Modernity Srividhya
Swaminathan 8. Cooking the Books: Metafictional Myth and Ecocritical Magic
in "Cozy" Mysteries from Agatha Christie to Contemporary Cooking Sleuths
Susan Rowland 9. Romance Narratives, Blackmail, and the Price of Knowledge
in the Novels of Raymond Chandler John Scaggs Part 4: Adapting Forms 10.
Agatha Christie's Mousetrap and Tom Stoppard's Real Inspector Hound:
Playing Cat and Mouse with Farce, Parody, and Meta-Theatricality Caroline
Marie 11. Beyond the Fog: Inherent Vice and Thomas Pynchon's Noir
Adjustment Eleanor Gold 12. The Mystery of the Missing Formula: Adapting
the World's Most Popular Girl Detective to Multimedia Platforms Beth Walker