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.

List of contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; M.Swales Poe and the Beautiful Segar Girl; J.Skvorecky Body Language: A Study of Death and Gender in Crime Fiction; S.Dunant Fascination and Nausea: Finding Our the Hard-Boiled Way; D.Trotter The Writers who Knew Too Much: Populism and Paradox in Detective Fiction's Golden Age; D.Glover 'Sherlock's Children: The Birth of the Series; M.Priestman Making the Dead Speak: Spiritualism and Detective Fiction; C.Willis The Locus of Disruption: Serial Murder and Generic Conventions in Detective Fiction; D.Schmid The Detective as Clown: A Taxonomy; A.Laski Mean Streets and English Gardens; W.Chernaik Authority, Social Anxiety and the Body in Crime Fiction: Patricia Corwell's Unnatural Exposure; P.Messent Desires and Devices: On Women Detectives in Fiction; B.Berglund A Band of Sisters; M.Kinsman An Urban Myth: Fantômas and the Surrealists; R.Vilain Bleeding the Thriller: Alain Robbe-Grillet's Intertextual Crimes; J.C.Brown Railway Novel: Railway Spine; L.Marcus Open Letter to Detectives and Psychoanalysts: Analysis and Reading; P.Ffrench Index

Product details

• Authors: Chernaik, Warren Chernaik Chernaik, Chernaik (Emeritus Professor in English, Universit Chernaik (Emeritus Professor in English
• Assisted by: W. Chernaik (Editor), Warren Chernaik (Editor), Warren L. Chernaik (Editor), Swales (Editor), M. Swales (Editor), Martin Swales (Editor), R Vilain (Editor), R. Vilain (Editor), Robert Vilain (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2000
• EAN: 9780333746011
• ISBN: 978-0-333-74601-1
• No. of pages: 255
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies