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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... argument . I would also like to thank two earlier teachers of mine at University College Dublin , Declan Kiberd and Seamus Deane , for first helping me to realize that there are more than thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird . For ...
... argument . I would also like to thank two earlier teachers of mine at University College Dublin , Declan Kiberd and Seamus Deane , for first helping me to realize that there are more than thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird . For ...
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... argue that the traditional dismissal of genre fiction cannot logically be sustained because all fiction is genre fiction ; all fiction acquires an identity through its incorporation of genres ( Bakhtin 288-89 ) . This approach differs ...
... argue that the traditional dismissal of genre fiction cannot logically be sustained because all fiction is genre fiction ; all fiction acquires an identity through its incorporation of genres ( Bakhtin 288-89 ) . This approach differs ...
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... argument , developed in full in chapter 1 , is that the dismissal of crime fiction and other popular forms of ... argue , are always relative : they are always historically made judgments , influenced by contemporary values and ...
... argument , developed in full in chapter 1 , is that the dismissal of crime fiction and other popular forms of ... argue , are always relative : they are always historically made judgments , influenced by contemporary values and ...
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... argue , offers a valorization of empire , while Conrad's The Secret Agent offers a more critical interpretation of empire in terms of the changes it has brought about within English society itself . The Secret Agent is also seen in ...
... argue , offers a valorization of empire , while Conrad's The Secret Agent offers a more critical interpretation of empire in terms of the changes it has brought about within English society itself . The Secret Agent is also seen in ...
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... argument concerning attitudes toward the British or American Empire gets buried for a time with almost every shift in authors . Yet this chronological progression seems preferable to a predominantly thematic structure inasmuch as it ...
... argument concerning attitudes toward the British or American Empire gets buried for a time with almost every shift in authors . Yet this chronological progression seems preferable to a predominantly thematic structure inasmuch as it ...
Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
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.