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The Figure of the Detective
- A Literary History and Analysis
Engelsk Paperback
The Figure of the Detective
- A Literary History and Analysis
Engelsk Paperback

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This book begins with a history of the detective genre, coextensive with the novel itself, identifying the attitudes and institutions needed for the genre to emerge in its mature form around 1880. The theory of the genre is laid out along with its central theme of the getting and deployment of knowledge. Sherlock Holmes, the English Classic stories and their inheritors are examined in light of this theme and the balance of two forms of knowledge used in fictional detection--cool or rational, and warm or emotional. The evolution of the genre formula is driven by changes in the social climate in which it is embedded. These changes explain the decay of the English Classic and its replacement by noir, hardboiled and spy stories, to end in the cul-de-sac of the thriller and the nostalgic Neo-Classic. Possible new forms of the detective story are suggested.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
216
ISBN-13:
9780786477692
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0786477695
Udg. Dato:
16 jan 2014
Længde:
13mm
Bredde:
226mm
Højde:
180mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
16 jan 2014
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