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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... century fictions of crime , however , are not sensational in the sense that we would use the word . Indeed , the modern meaning of " sensational " came about only in the nineteenth century in conjunction with ( and because of ) the rise ...
... century fictions of crime , however , are not sensational in the sense that we would use the word . Indeed , the modern meaning of " sensational " came about only in the nineteenth century in conjunction with ( and because of ) the rise ...
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... century there were absolutely no evidentiary trials , at least none that were deliberate . Only several eyewitnesses and above all the confession , which was called the regina probationis , could sustain a conviction - nothing else ...
... century there were absolutely no evidentiary trials , at least none that were deliberate . Only several eyewitnesses and above all the confession , which was called the regina probationis , could sustain a conviction - nothing else ...
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... century , this process of assimilation of popular culture was regularly accompanied by high modernism's very conscious attempt to define itself in opposition to popular culture . ( By " popular culture " I mean primarily all the ...
... century , this process of assimilation of popular culture was regularly accompanied by high modernism's very conscious attempt to define itself in opposition to popular culture . ( By " popular culture " I mean primarily all the ...
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... century . To Berman , this is the age of revolution and of the emergence of a modern public : " This public shares the feeling of living in a revolutionary age , an age that generates explosive upheavals in every dimen- sion of personal ...
... century . To Berman , this is the age of revolution and of the emergence of a modern public : " This public shares the feeling of living in a revolutionary age , an age that generates explosive upheavals in every dimen- sion of personal ...
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... century to the second half of the twentieth ; and last , the exploration of the possibilities and limitations of fiction itself as a type of social praxis . Modernism is construed here as the institutionally and culturally domi- 8 ...
... century to the second half of the twentieth ; and last , the exploration of the possibilities and limitations of fiction itself as a type of social praxis . Modernism is construed here as the institutionally and culturally domi- 8 ...
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.