John Scaggs
Crime Fiction
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Crime Fiction
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Provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for all those studying crime fiction.
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Provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for all those studying crime fiction.
Produktdetails
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- The New Critical Idiom
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 184
- Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2005
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 200mm x 129mm x 22mm
- Gewicht: 208g
- ISBN-13: 9780415318242
- ISBN-10: 0415318246
- Artikelnr.: 22483460
- The New Critical Idiom
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 184
- Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2005
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 200mm x 129mm x 22mm
- Gewicht: 208g
- ISBN-13: 9780415318242
- ISBN-10: 0415318246
- Artikelnr.: 22483460
John Scaggs is a Lecturer in the Department of English at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland. His research interests include Modern Fiction, with a particular emphasis on crime fiction and revenge tragedy, the Gothic and Literary Theory.
Introduction Chapter 1. A Chronology of Crime: Early Crime Narratives Crime
Stories as Cautionary Tales Crime Fiction and Policing The Golden Age to
the Present Chapter 2. Mystery and Detective Fiction: Retracing the Steps
The Origins of Mystery Fiction Reasoning Machines: The Figure of the
Amateur Detective Escalating Crimes: From Purloined Letters to Murder
Maintaining Social Order and the Status Quo Settings and Sub-Genres
Chapter 3. The Hard-boiled Mode: Murder for a Reason Origins and
Development A Shop-Soiled Galahad: The Private Eye Hero Last Chances and
New Beginnings: The Myth of the Frontier Mean Streets and Rat's Alleys:
Modernity and the City Fallen Angels: Appropriation of the Hard-Boiled Mode
Chapter 4. The Police Procedural: Thin Blue Lines Fiction as Ideological
State Apparatus Private Eye to Public Eye: The Development of the
Procedural Textual Investigations: Characteristics of the Procedural,
Social Placebo The Magic Bullet of Procedural Reassurance Arrested
Developments: Appropriations of the Procedural Chapter 5. The Crime
Thriller: Outlining the Crime Thriller The Noir Thriller The
Anti-Conspiracy Thriller 6. Historical Crime Fiction: Writing History and
Interpreting the Past Crime, History and Realism The Case of the Name of
the Rose Postmodernism and the Anti-Detective Novel
Stories as Cautionary Tales Crime Fiction and Policing The Golden Age to
the Present Chapter 2. Mystery and Detective Fiction: Retracing the Steps
The Origins of Mystery Fiction Reasoning Machines: The Figure of the
Amateur Detective Escalating Crimes: From Purloined Letters to Murder
Maintaining Social Order and the Status Quo Settings and Sub-Genres
Chapter 3. The Hard-boiled Mode: Murder for a Reason Origins and
Development A Shop-Soiled Galahad: The Private Eye Hero Last Chances and
New Beginnings: The Myth of the Frontier Mean Streets and Rat's Alleys:
Modernity and the City Fallen Angels: Appropriation of the Hard-Boiled Mode
Chapter 4. The Police Procedural: Thin Blue Lines Fiction as Ideological
State Apparatus Private Eye to Public Eye: The Development of the
Procedural Textual Investigations: Characteristics of the Procedural,
Social Placebo The Magic Bullet of Procedural Reassurance Arrested
Developments: Appropriations of the Procedural Chapter 5. The Crime
Thriller: Outlining the Crime Thriller The Noir Thriller The
Anti-Conspiracy Thriller 6. Historical Crime Fiction: Writing History and
Interpreting the Past Crime, History and Realism The Case of the Name of
the Rose Postmodernism and the Anti-Detective Novel
Introduction Chapter 1. A Chronology of Crime: Early Crime Narratives Crime
Stories as Cautionary Tales Crime Fiction and Policing The Golden Age to
the Present Chapter 2. Mystery and Detective Fiction: Retracing the Steps
The Origins of Mystery Fiction Reasoning Machines: The Figure of the
Amateur Detective Escalating Crimes: From Purloined Letters to Murder
Maintaining Social Order and the Status Quo Settings and Sub-Genres
Chapter 3. The Hard-boiled Mode: Murder for a Reason Origins and
Development A Shop-Soiled Galahad: The Private Eye Hero Last Chances and
New Beginnings: The Myth of the Frontier Mean Streets and Rat's Alleys:
Modernity and the City Fallen Angels: Appropriation of the Hard-Boiled Mode
Chapter 4. The Police Procedural: Thin Blue Lines Fiction as Ideological
State Apparatus Private Eye to Public Eye: The Development of the
Procedural Textual Investigations: Characteristics of the Procedural,
Social Placebo The Magic Bullet of Procedural Reassurance Arrested
Developments: Appropriations of the Procedural Chapter 5. The Crime
Thriller: Outlining the Crime Thriller The Noir Thriller The
Anti-Conspiracy Thriller 6. Historical Crime Fiction: Writing History and
Interpreting the Past Crime, History and Realism The Case of the Name of
the Rose Postmodernism and the Anti-Detective Novel
Stories as Cautionary Tales Crime Fiction and Policing The Golden Age to
the Present Chapter 2. Mystery and Detective Fiction: Retracing the Steps
The Origins of Mystery Fiction Reasoning Machines: The Figure of the
Amateur Detective Escalating Crimes: From Purloined Letters to Murder
Maintaining Social Order and the Status Quo Settings and Sub-Genres
Chapter 3. The Hard-boiled Mode: Murder for a Reason Origins and
Development A Shop-Soiled Galahad: The Private Eye Hero Last Chances and
New Beginnings: The Myth of the Frontier Mean Streets and Rat's Alleys:
Modernity and the City Fallen Angels: Appropriation of the Hard-Boiled Mode
Chapter 4. The Police Procedural: Thin Blue Lines Fiction as Ideological
State Apparatus Private Eye to Public Eye: The Development of the
Procedural Textual Investigations: Characteristics of the Procedural,
Social Placebo The Magic Bullet of Procedural Reassurance Arrested
Developments: Appropriations of the Procedural Chapter 5. The Crime
Thriller: Outlining the Crime Thriller The Noir Thriller The
Anti-Conspiracy Thriller 6. Historical Crime Fiction: Writing History and
Interpreting the Past Crime, History and Realism The Case of the Name of
the Rose Postmodernism and the Anti-Detective Novel