Theory and practice of classic detective fiction

1998; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 35; Issue: 09 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.35-4972

ISSN

1943-5975

Autores

Jerome Delamater, Ruth Prigozy,

Tópico(s)

Crime and Detective Fiction Studies

Resumo

Preface Theoretical Approaches to the Genre Canonization, Modern Literature, and the Detective Story by John G. Cawelti Shamus-a-um: Having the Quality of a Classical Detective by Timothy W. Boyd and Carolyn Higbie Ideal Helpmate: Detective Character as (Fictional) Object and Ideal Imago by Timothy R. Prchal Politics of Secrecy and Publicity: Functions of Hidden Stories in Some Recent British Mystery Fiction by Peter Huhn Not so Much Whodunnit as Whoizzit: Margaret Millar's Command of a Metonymic Sub-Genre by Ann Thompson and John O. Thompson Parody and Detective Fiction by Janice Mant The Game's Afoot: Predecessors and Pursuits of a Postmodern Detective, by Kathleen Belin Owen Agatha Christie Novels and British Detective Fiction Christie's Narrative Games by Robert Merrill It Was the Mark of Cain: Agatha Christie and the Murder of the Mystery by Robin Woods Impossible Murderers: Agatha Christie and the Community of Readers by Ina Rae Hark The Daughters of His Manhood: Christie and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction by Mary Anne Ackershoek I Am Duchess of Malfi Still: Identity-Death Nexus in Duchess of Malfi and Skull Beneath the Skin by Carolyn F. Scott An Unsuitable for Anyone: Filthy Trade in P. D. James by Marnie Jones and Barbara Barker Between Men: How Ruth Rendell Reads for Gender by Martha Stoddard Holmes Class, Gender, and the Possibilities of Detection in Anne Perry's Victorian Reconstructions by Iska S. Alter A Suitable Job for a Woman: Sexuality, Motherhood, and Professionalism in Gaudy Night by Jasmine Y. Hall Bureaucrat as Reader: Detective Novel in the Context of Middle-Class Culture by James E. Bartell Index

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