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Essays explore the reasons for the popularity of murder mysteries and discuss the literary techniques and social aspects of detective novels.
Author : Glenn W. Most
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 39,99 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Essays explore the reasons for the popularity of murder mysteries and discuss the literary techniques and social aspects of detective novels.
Author : Beatrice Martina Guenther
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 1996-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791430248
Discusses literary representations of death to explore the relation between writing and death--death understood as both the death of the individual and the death of meaning.
Author : Ellen L. O'Brien
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,86 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814210857
Over the last few decades, Victorian scholars have produced many nuanced studies connecting the politics of crime to the generic developments of the novel--and vice versa. Ellen L. O'Brien's Crime in Verse grants the same attention and status to poetic representations of crime. Considering the literary achievements and cultural engagements of poetry while historicizing murder's entanglement in legal fictions, punitive practices, medical theories, class conflicts, and gender codes, O'Brien argues that shifting approaches to poetry and conflicted understandings of murder allowed poets to align problems of legal and literary interpretation in provocative, disruptive, and innovative ways. Developing focused analyses of generic and discursive meanings, individual chapters examine the classed politics of crime and punishment in the broadside ballad, the epistemological tensions of homicidal lunacy and criminal responsibility in the dramatic monologue, and the legal and ideological frictions of domestic violence in the verse novel and verse drama. Their juxtaposition of the rhymes of anonymous street balladeers, the underexamined verse of "minor" poets, and the familiar poems of canonical figures suggests the interactive and intertextual relationships informing poetic agendas and political arguments. As it simultaneously reconsiders the institutional and ideological status of murder and the aesthetic and political interests of poetry, Crime in Verse offers new ways of thinking about Victorian poetry's contents and contexts.
Author : Neil L. Whitehead
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 2002-10-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822384302
On the little-known and darker side of shamanism there exists an ancient form of sorcery called kanaimà, a practice still observed among the Amerindians of the highlands of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil that involves the ritual stalking, mutilation, lingering death, and consumption of human victims. At once a memoir of cultural encounter and an ethnographic and historical investigation, this book offers a sustained, intimate look at kanaimà, its practitioners, their victims, and the reasons they give for their actions. Neil L. Whitehead tells of his own involvement with kanaimà—including an attempt to kill him with poison—and relates the personal testimonies of kanaimà shamans, their potential victims, and the victims’ families. He then goes on to discuss the historical emergence of kanaimà, describing how, in the face of successive modern colonizing forces—missionaries, rubber gatherers, miners, and development agencies—the practice has become an assertion of native autonomy. His analysis explores the ways in which kanaimà mediates both national and international impacts on native peoples in the region and considers the significance of kanaimà for current accounts of shamanism and religious belief and for theories of war and violence. Kanaimà appears here as part of the wider lexicon of rebellious terror and exotic horror—alongside the cannibal, vampire, and zombie—that haunts the western imagination. Dark Shamans broadens discussions of violence and of the representation of primitive savagery by recasting both in the light of current debates on modernity and globalization.
Author : Dennis Barone
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812206681
The novels of Paul Auster—finely wrought, self-reflexive, filled with doublings, coincidences, and mysteries—have captured the imagination of readers and the admiration of many critics of contemporary literature. In Beyond the Red Notebook, the first book devoted to the works of Auster, Dennis Barone has assembled an international group of scholars who present twelve essays that provide a rich and insightful examination of Auster's writings. The authors explore connections between Auster's poetry and fiction, the philosophical underpinnings of his writing, its relation to detective fiction, and its unique embodiment of the postmodern sublime. Their essays provide the fullest analysis available of Auster's themes of solitude, chance, and paternity found in works such as The Invention of Solitude, City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room, In the Country of Last Things, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, and Leviathan. This volume includes contributions from Pascal Bruckner, Marc Chenetier, Norman Finkelstein, Derek Rubin, Madeleine Sorapure, Stephen Bernstein, Tim Woods, Steven Weisenburger, Arthur Saltzman, Eric Wirth, and Motoyuki Shibata. The extensive bibliography, prepared by William Drenttel, will greatly benefit both scholars and general readers.
Author : David John Brennan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN :
In 1798, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were engaged in a top secret experiment. This was not, as many assume, the creation of a book of poetry. A book emerged, to be sure--the landmark Lyrical Ballads. But in Murder Ballads, David John Brennan posits that the two poets were in fact pursuing far different ends: to birth from their poems a singular, idealized Poet. Despite their success, such Frankensteinian pursuits proved rife with consequence for the men. Doubts and questions plagued them: What does it mean to be a poet if your work is not your own? Who is best fit to lay claim to a parcel of poetic property that was collaboratively crafted and bequeathed to a fictitious Poet? How does one kill a Poet born of one's own hand? Blending critical examination with jocular playlets-in-verse featuring the authors of the two books in baffled conversation, Murder Ballads reopens a 200-year-old cold case that never received a proper investigation: Who was the first true Author of Lyrical Ballads, and how exactly did he die?
Author : Sara Louise Knox
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
An analysis of American murder narratives across a number of genres including novels, sociological texts and true crime accounts.
Author : Édouard Glissant
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780472066292
A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English
Author : Martin Priestman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 2003-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107494508
The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form. The collection, by an international team of established specialists, offers students invaluable reference material including a chronology and guides to further reading. The volume aims to ensure that its readers will be grounded in the history of crime fiction and its critical reception.
Author : A. Trevor Tolley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780886292102
One of the finest British poets of this century, Roy Fuller was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, the C.B.E., and was elected to the Oxford Professorship of Poetry. The achievements of the late poet, novelist, critic and autobiographer are honoured here in essays and poems by writers who were his friends.