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Genre (2020) 53 (2): 159–182.
Published: 01 July 2020
... in which Kim’s protagonist operates, attempting to solve the case of her parents’ murder, is as treacherous as the world portrayed in early hard-boiled detective fiction. Kim has inherited from early hard-boiled crime fiction such elements as its rugged individualism, a cynical-but-sentimental worldview...
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Genre (2016) 49 (3): 255–272.
Published: 01 December 2016
.... This article argues that Gaudy Night 's departures from detective story convention represent more than a successful leap into the “highbrow” or a pioneering defense of women's education. Instead, they reflect a complex and problematic engagement with the early twentieth-century middlebrow phenomenon...
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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 331–353.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Brian Diemert © COPYRIGHT 2003 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2003 WORKS CITED Auden W. H. “The Guilty Vicarage.” 1938 . The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays . London : Faber , 1963 . 146 - 58 . Aydelotte William O. “The Detective Story as a Historical Source...
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Genre (2022) 55 (3): 179–203.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Michelle Robinson This essay argues that by studying parodies of detective fiction from the turn of the twentieth century, one can envision a more complete history of the detective genre's development and the alternate paths it might have pursued. Mark Twain's A Double‐Barrelled Detective Story...
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Genre (2022) 55 (2): 117–139.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Sarah Briest Abstract Members of a literary organization known as the Detection Club cowrote the mystery novels The Floating Admiral and Ask a Policeman in 1932 and 1933, respectively. These novels are of interest primarily for what they suggest about literary genre: the microcosms...
FIGURES
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Genre (2017) 50 (2): 153–179.
Published: 01 July 2017
... the post-Enlightenment project of ideological critique, the unmasking of concealed truth, although he has lost faith in the efficacy of this project. Sloterdijk's account provides a fascinating analogue to European detective figures noted for their “authenticity” or “realism,” and the Wallander series...
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Genre (2017) 50 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Geoffrey Baker Focusing in particular on Wilkie Collins's The Law and the Lady (1875) and Anthony Trollope's Phineas Redux (1873), this essay examines the manner in which Victorian novels grapple with various forms of evidence, ranging from the forensic and detective knowledge of the police...
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Genre (2019) 52 (3): 151–177.
Published: 01 December 2019
... the fundamental laws of energy no longer apply. The article first examines how espionage, detective, and invasion fiction, exemplified by The Secret Agent , incorporated the Edwardian press’s figuration of radium to suggest that the entropic nation-state’s raison d’être, degenerate populations, was not so...
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Genre (2022) 55 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2022
... identifies three distinct modalities of the new opioid novel, paying particular attention to the ways these texts think through the causality of the opioid epidemic. First, some texts (novels from Julie Bunton, Brian Allen Carr, Cheryl Reed, and Jennifer Weiner), which read like detective fiction, take...
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Genre (2022) 55 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Jesper Gulddal Abstract One of the most important trends in contemporary crime fiction is the proliferation and commercial success of crime novels written in English but set in foreign places and featuring foreign detectives—that is, the rise of the foreignizing crime novel . In spite of its...
FIGURES
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Genre (2011) 44 (2): 129–156.
Published: 01 June 2011
... inability to conceive its magnitude. Similarly, by relying on the fantastic power of vision he found in paintings and photographs, Jean-Martin Charcot developed into medical knowledge the gothic sublime, which also aided the detective protagonists of sensation novels. Working to extend this tradition, Woolf...
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Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 81–100.
Published: 01 March 2001
... Agatha . The Mysterious Affair at Styles . New York [1920] : Bantam , 1962 . Craig Patricia Cadogan Mary . The Lady Investigates: Women Detectives and Spies in Fiction . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1986 . Doyle Sir Arthur Conan . Sherlock Holmes: The Complete...
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Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 91–113.
Published: 01 March 2010
... . Chicago , University of Chicago Press , 1985 . Print . Detweiler Jane . “A Piano in the Margin: Gertrude Stein ‘Detected’ in Blood on the Dining Room Floor.” Kentucky Philological Review 7 ( 1992 ): 12 - 16 . Print . Doane Janice . Silence and Narrative: The Early Novels...
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Genre (2014) 47 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2014
... and Writers , 168 – 74 . London : Sheed and Ward . Crofton Sarah . 2012 . “CSΨ: Occult Detectives of the Fin de Siècle and the Interpretation of Evidence.” Clues: A Journal of Detection 30 . 2 : 29 – 39 . Davies David Stuart . 1968 . Holmes of the Movies: The Screen Career...
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Genre (2009) 42 (3-4): 79–98.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of the Performative . New York : Routledge , 1997 . Print . Christian Ed. “ Introducing the Post-Colonial Detective: Putting Marginality to Work .” The Post-Colonial Detective . Ed. Christian Ed . London : Palgrave , 2001 . 1 - 16 . Print . Coale Samuel . The Mystery...
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Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 5–10.
Published: 01 March 2001
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Sanctuary. "Faulkner is well aware that detectives do not exist; that the police rely
on neither psychology nor perspicacity but rather on secret information; and
that the murderer on the run is caught, not by Mr. Gumshoe or Mr. Shadow,
those modest thinkers at the Quai des Orfevres [police...
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Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 1–4.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Timothy S. Murphy INTRODUCTION TO GILLES DELEUZE'S
"PHILOSOPHY OF THE SERIE NOIRE"
TIMOTHY S. MURPHY, UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
No one should mistake the text here translated, a celebration of the famous
French line of hardboiled detective novels the Serie Noire (inaugurated by Edi...
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Genre (2014) 47 (2): 141–170.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., and Television.” In Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism , 2nd ed. , edited by Allen Robert Clyde , 203 – 46 . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press . Gunning Tom . 1999 . “Embarrassing Evidence: The Detective Camera and the Documentary...
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Genre (2002) 35 (1): 143–165.
Published: 01 March 2002
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and prolific career. A writer overdue for sustained critical treatment, Rendell
supplies the terms for such an evaluation in the way she stages the debut of her
persona.
'Full-page advertisement for The House of Stairs, printed in The Armchair Detective 22 (1989).
First issued in Britain...
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Genre (2009) 42 (3-4): 5–20.
Published: 01 September 2009
... Detective, 1901-1915 . Aldershot : Ashgate , 2000 . Print . McHale Brian . “ Zapping, the art of switching channels: on Vineland .” Constructing Postmodernism . London : Routledge , 1992 . 115 - 141 . Print . Molson Francis J. “ The Tom Swift Books .” Science Fiction...
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