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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 (2002) 35 (2): 331–353.
Published: 01 June 2002
... . “The Hard-Boiled Detective Novel.” Detective Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays . Ed. Winks Robin W. . 1980 . Woodstock, Vermont : Foul Play Press , 1988 . 103 - 20 . Hammett Dashiell . The Maltese Falcon . 1930 . New York : Vintage , 1972 . —. Red Harvest . 1929 . New...
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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 (2016) 49 (3): 255–272.
Published: 01 December 2016
... at the center of 1930s debates over the term middlebrow , suggesting that the novel is valuable not just because it aspires to raise the status of detective fiction but because it highlights the complexity of the connections between representation, reception, and perceived literary quality. Anna Bogen...
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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 (2): 117–139.
Published: 01 July 2022
... sleuths, and female writers of detective fiction, were remarkably common: Christie's Miss Marple first appeared in 1930, in the wake of Poirot, by which time she could take her place in a long tradition of sleuthing women. The year 1864 saw the appearance of two fictional females attached to the British...
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Genre (2017) 50 (2): 153–179.
Published: 01 July 2017
...” in the collection Ruin Porn: Essays on the Obsession with Decay . © 2017 by University of Oklahoma 2017 Wallander Sweden crime detective fiction police procedural welfare state cynical reason Works Cited BBC News . “Sweden Election: Social Democrats Rule Out Far-Right Pact.” September...
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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...
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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 (2009) 42 (3-4): 79–98.
Published: 01 September 2009
... . Transl. Markmann Charles Lam . New York : Grove Press , 1967 . Print . Fischer-Hornung Dorothea Mueller Monika . “ Introduction .” Sleuthing Ethnicity: The Detective in Multiethnic Crime Fiction . Eds. Fischer-Hornung Dorothea Mueller Monika . Madison : Fairleigh...
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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 (2014) 47 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2014
... . Knight Stephen . 1980 . Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction . London : Macmillan . ———. 2004 . Crime Fiction 1800–2000: Detection, Death, Diversity . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan . Knox Ronald A. (1929) 1946 . “A Detective Story Decalogue.” In The Art of the Mystery...
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Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 91–113.
Published: 01 March 2010
... . The Web of Inquiry: Early Detective Fiction by American Women London and Durham : Duke University Press , 1998 . Print . Pearson Edmund . Studies in Murder . New York : The Modern Library , 1938 . Print . Rinehart Mary Robert . The Album . 1933 . New York : Kensington...
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Genre (2002) 35 (1): 143–165.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., to address readers in the first person.2
As Ruth, Rendell has become famous in a genre that she—like many critics of
detective fiction—associates with hard-edged masculinity; Wexford, she has
acknowledged, is in large part a portrait of her father, although if he "had been
born today, he would...
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Genre (2014) 47 (2): 141–170.
Published: 01 July 2014
... – 42 . Amsterdam : Rodopi . Thomas Kristin . 2003 . Storytelling in Film and Television . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Thomas Ronald . 1995 . “Making Darkness Visible: Capturing the Criminal and Observing the Law in Victorian Photography and Detective Fiction...
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Genre (2017) 50 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 April 2017
...
(episteme) from mere belief or opinion (doxa)” (5). She goes on to list a “whole
range of projects” epistemology has “undertaken,” three of which will be most
relevant to the idea of belief in Victorian fictionalizations of character witness and
detection: “distinguishing genuine knowledge from mere...
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Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 1–4.
Published: 01 March 2001
... of the Serie Noire" solves this mystery. It reveals Deleuze's fas-
cination with the detective genre that, like his parallel interest in science fiction,
connects popular literature to the creation of philosophical concepts. The con-
cept invented in this essay and illustrated by the detective novels...
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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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Genre (2011) 44 (2): 129–156.
Published: 01 June 2011
... in sen-
sation fiction and in nineteenth-century psychiatry.
In To the Lighthouse Woolf uses the logic of the gothic sublime as a model
for exploring human character. Her artist protagonist is the literary descendant of
the detective characters of sensation fiction, who deciphered the dark...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 17–42.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of the reading process in this graphic novel, which directly gestures to its debt to earlier graphic novels (Kwa 2020a ; see also Hassler-Forest 2020 ). Ferris also borrows from many narrative traditions including, but not limited to, detective fiction and its derivative subgenres in the horror comics...
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