Horror fiction has provided our culture with some of its most enduring themes. In examining the cultural apparatus surrounding it, Grixti argues that such narratives raise important questions about the relationship between fiction and society. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of cultural studies, literary studies and the media.
Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was one of the most successful 20th-century authors of crime fiction. His 75 Maigret novels and 28 Maigret short stories published between 1931 and 1972 found international success, (he is the only non-anglophone crime writer who has found such international renown). His Maigret stories are regarded by many as having established a new direction in crime fiction, emphasising social and psychological portraiture rather than focussing on a puzzle to be solved or on ""act...
Since Edgar Allan Poe invented the modern mystery novel in the mid-19th century, the number of authors writing in this field has steadily increased along with a demand for such literature. As a response to such growth, this text features articles on 100 of the most important writers of the genre.
Investigating Identities (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, #56)
To read a crime novel today largely simulates the exercise of reading newspapers or watching the news. The speed and frequency with which today's bestselling works of crime fiction are produced allow them to mirror and dissect nearly contemporaneous socio-political events and conflicts. This collection examines this phenomenon and offers original, critical, essays on how national identity appears in international crime fiction in the age of populism and globalization. These essays address topics...
The Art of Detective Fiction
The contributors to this volume all pay tribute to, and seek to account for, the astonishing durability of the detective story as a narrative genre. The essays range generously, taking a variety of theoretical approaches and including detective fiction in languages other than English, but particular attention is paid to the 'Golden Age' of English detective story writing and to the 'hard-boiled' American version on the genre. This is a collection that will appeal to the scholar and to the devote...
Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society: From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes (Crime Files)
by Emelyne Godfrey
Carolyn G. Heilbrun (Twayne's United States authors, TUSAS 672)
by Julia B Boken
Skydiving, Cakes And Murder A Twist-after-twist Fiction That You Probably Can Not Put Down
by Nancey Gallup
Literary Topics (Gale Study Guides to Great Literature)
813 (Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Cambrioleur, #4) (Arsene Lupin, #4)
by Maurice Leblanc
When one of Arsene Lupin's victims is found dead in a way that implicates the wily criminal, he insists on heading the police search for the real murderer. The mystery involves finding a package of letters once written to Bismarck, locating a clock on which the number 813 has significance, as well as causing a reigning emperor to make several journeys incognito. Murders by the dozens, suicide and mild forms of torture are warp and woof of the plot.
"As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient's occupation, hometown, and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait, and speech. Although Doyle was training to be a surgeon, he was meanwhile cultivating essential knowledge that would feed his literary dreams and help him develop the most iconic detective in fiction. Michael Sims traces the circuitous deve...
