Fiction, Crime, and Empire: Clues to Modernity and PostmodernismUniversity of Illinois Press, 1993 - 200 páginas Reading fiction from high and low culture together, Fiction, Crime, and Empire skillfully sheds light on how crime fiction responded to the British and American experiences of empire, and how forms such as the detective novel, spy thrillers, and conspiracy fiction articulate powerful cultural responses to imperialism. Poe's Dupin stories, for example, are seen as embodying a highly critical vision of the social forces that were then transforming the United States into a modern, democratic industrialized nation; a century later, Le Carré employs the conventions of espionage fiction to critique the exhausted and morally compromised values of British imperialism. By exploring these works through the organizing figure of crime during and after the age of high imperialism, Thompson challenges and modifies commonplace definitions of modernism, postmodernism, and popular or mass culture. |
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... book is printed on acid - free paper . Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Thompson , Jon , 1959- Fiction , crime , and empire : clues to modernity and postmodernism / Jon Thompson . p . cm . Includes bibliographical ...
... book is printed on acid - free paper . Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Thompson , Jon , 1959- Fiction , crime , and empire : clues to modernity and postmodernism / Jon Thompson . p . cm . Includes bibliographical ...
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... book . Without them , it would never have been written - although a much inferior one would have been . For help along the way , I am happy to thank Granger Babcock , Sara Baker , John Bassett , Suzanne Chester , Lucinda Cole , Daniel ...
... book . Without them , it would never have been written - although a much inferior one would have been . For help along the way , I am happy to thank Granger Babcock , Sara Baker , John Bassett , Suzanne Chester , Lucinda Cole , Daniel ...
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... book is that fictions of crime offer myths of the experience of modernity , of what it is like to live in a world dominated by the contradictory forces of renewal and disintegration , progress and destruction , possibility and ...
... book is that fictions of crime offer myths of the experience of modernity , of what it is like to live in a world dominated by the contradictory forces of renewal and disintegration , progress and destruction , possibility and ...
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... book's subtitle suggests , my inquiry is carried out within the chronological framework of what Marshall Berman has called " the experi- ence of modernity . " 9 Berman divides modernity into three major phases . The first runs from ...
... book's subtitle suggests , my inquiry is carried out within the chronological framework of what Marshall Berman has called " the experi- ence of modernity . " 9 Berman divides modernity into three major phases . The first runs from ...
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... book . Fiction , Crime , and Empire is organized chronologically . In one sense this is awkward , since I deal with both British and American fiction , and my argument concerning attitudes toward the British or American Empire gets ...
... book . Fiction , Crime , and Empire is organized chronologically . In one sense this is awkward , since I deal with both British and American fiction , and my argument concerning attitudes toward the British or American Empire gets ...
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Adorno adventure aesthetic alienation anarchists Baudrillard bourgeois British capitalism Carré character Christie Christie's Conrad consciousness contemporary Continental Op conventions crime fiction critical Crying of Lot Dashiell Hammett detective fiction detective figure detective novel detective stories dominant Doyle Dupin empire empiricism espionage fiction evaluation exists formal English novel Freud genre Glass Key Hammett's fiction hard-boiled fiction high modernism Holmes's human identity ideology imperial India individual Kipling Kipling's knowledge language Leamas literary literature Lukács Marx Marxism mass culture Miss Marple modernist moral Morstan mystery narrative novel of detection Poe's detective political popular culture popular fiction postmodern produced Purloined Letter Pynchon ratiocinative Raymond Williams reader realism reality relations represented Secret Agent sense Sherlock Holmes Sign of Four simulacra Sleeping Murder social society spy novel structure style subgenre suggests theory thriller tion tradition ultimately values Victorian writing York
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Página 7 - To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world — and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.