... 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...

... Stein in Pieces . New York : Oxford University Press , 1970 . Print . Carson Luke . Consumption and Depression in Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukovsky and Ezra Pound . New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press , 1999 . Print . Cawelti John . Adventure, Mystery, and Romance . Chicago...

... suggests an unusual connection between the public violence of these late-sixties conflicts, on the one hand, and the protagonist's “disintegration” and his mother's mysterious death—the ultimate products of their suburban discontent—on the other. This connection can be elaborated through the concepts...

... that in their mysterious richness remain unrivaled in the history of the novel—is always accompanied by, is indeed deeply enmeshed with, a contrary tendency that is bawdy, unserious, low. It isolates the obscene double entendre as the linguistic device by which James most directly conducts the bawdy countercurrent in his...

...,” offering stereotypes of Asians as “silent, reticent, passive, yet also exotic, mysterious, objects of aesthetic contemplation.” But is Yu’s project not at the same time reinscribing a kind of Chinese inscrutability, presenting China as perennially unknowable in its critique of so many efforts to make...

... an epistemological approach, framing opioid use as a problem or mystery to be solved. A second set of texts pursues a more ontological approach. These novels (Nico Walker's Cherry and Michael Henson's Maggie Boylan and Tommy Perdue ), which read like existential fiction, sidestep the problem of causality to imagine...

...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...

... it, rather than the ratiocinative mastery of the detective. These three parodies of detective fiction burlesque incipient genre texts from the nineteenth century by painstakingly regurgitating the global political and economic stakes that set the stage for local mysteries, even when they defer rather than...

... in Ivanov's correspondence with his young acolyte Aleksei Skaldin, who in 1912 was overseeing the printing of Ivanov's poetry collection Tender Mystery (Nezhnaia taina). Skaldin quite audaciously asks whether Ivanov might not profit from re-casting his poem "The Stallion Arion" ("Kon' Arion...

... with an exploration of feminine sub- jectivity.6 As the letter itself intimates, this exploration begins with the elimination of the detective and the substitution of a first-person narrator who participates more intimately in the mystery she unfolds. Vine's "intuitive" approach is fur- ther identified...

..., and Chatfield College and currently teaches English at Marion Technical College. © 2016 by University of Oklahoma 2016 middlebrow mysteries Dorothy L. Sayers Q. D. Leavis modernism Works Cited Auden W. H. 1948 . “The Guilty Vicarage.” Harper's Magazine , May : 406 – 12...

...Nils Clausson © COPYRIGHT 2002 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2002 WORKS CITED Black Joel . The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1991 . Cawelti John G. Adventure, Mystery...

... Robin W. “The Historical Mystery.” Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection and Espionage . 2 vols . Ed. Winks Robin W. Corrigan Maureen . New York : Scribners , 1998 . 2 . 1089 - 1101 . "How Do You DESCRIBE THE INDESCRIBABLE?" REPRESENTING HISTORY...

... the hostility of an environment that allows only limited space to outcasts and children like her (Jenkins 2020 : 215). She revisits history through recreating Anka's account. Finally, she unpeels the layers of adult knowledge, some better concealed than others in the story. Mysteries and the solutions to those...

... of Sherlock Holmes . New York : Bramhall House . Derrida Jacques . 1980 . “The Law of Genre.” Translated by Atival Ronell . Critical Inquiry 7 . 1 : 55 – 81 . “The Detection Club Oath.” (1928?) 1946 . In The Art of the Mystery Story: A Collection of Critical Essays , edited...

... novelty, both present and anticipated. The novel’s treatment of industrial chem- istry—centered on the mysterious polymer Imipolex G—invokes this history and inherits its preoccupations. During this time, the introduction of an entirely new class of materials into interwar and postwar...

... acknowledged to have three main aesthetic influences: the mystery story, the background of Ameri- can naturalism featuring economic determinism, and the stylistic and thematic example of Ernest Hemingway (especially his stripped- down, undemonstrative style and his focus on maleness and masculinity...

... that The Sword Went Out to Sea (writ- ten in 1946 – 52), Helen in Egypt (written in 1952 – 55), The Mystery (written in 1948 – 51), Bid Me to Live (A Madrigal) (written in 1918 – 48), The White Rose and the Red (written in 1947 – 49), and Pilate’s Wife (written in 1929 – 34) all under- take a process...

... with “introducing into fiction the most mysterious of mysteries, the mysteries that are at our own doors.” He adds, “Instead of the terrors of Udolpho we were treated to the terrors of the cheerful county house, or the London lodgings.” 2. On this key feature of gothic fiction...

...- generating radiobes (a mysterious crystalline formation resulting from gelatin s interaction with radium) raised the specter of modern- day alchemy by casting doubt over the boundaries between living and nonliving beings. More disturbing than any other discovery, Marie Curie and Pierre Curie s 1903...