Foul and Fair Play - Reading Genre in Classic Detective Fiction

Informationen zum Autor MARTY ROTH is a professor of English at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Comedy and America: The Lost World of Washington Irving and the editor of Washington Irving's Contributions to "The Corrector ." Klappentext An examination of classic detective fiction as a genre. The book attempts to read a variety of texts by different authors as variations on a common and relatively tight set of conventions, ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins, through Robert Louis Stevenson and H.G. Wells, to the 1960s. Zusammenfassung The detective fiction genre, as Roth defines it, includes analytic detective fiction, hard-boiled detective fiction, and the spy thriller. Roth insists on the structural common ground of these three types of writing and places them in the larger system of mystery fiction that preceded and surrounds them.

Product details

• Authors: Marty Roth
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.1995
• EAN: 9780820316222
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-1622-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Mystery & Detective