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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... contemporary films concern crime - whether theft , murder , rape , forgery , blackmail , extortion , influence peddling , or any of the myriad forms of political corruption . Every fall the three major American television networks ( not ...
... contemporary films concern crime - whether theft , murder , rape , forgery , blackmail , extortion , influence peddling , or any of the myriad forms of political corruption . Every fall the three major American television networks ( not ...
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... contemporary mass culture , especially in quasi - factual magazines specializing in the accounts of victims of violent criminals . Clearly , then , these various fictions of crime are deeply rooted in our culture , but what do they mean ...
... contemporary mass culture , especially in quasi - factual magazines specializing in the accounts of victims of violent criminals . Clearly , then , these various fictions of crime are deeply rooted in our culture , but what do they mean ...
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... of literary merit , I argue , are always relative : they are always historically made judgments , influenced by contemporary values and ideologies . My approach has been most influenced by Raymond Williams , Introduction 5.
... of literary merit , I argue , are always relative : they are always historically made judgments , influenced by contemporary values and ideologies . My approach has been most influenced by Raymond Williams , Introduction 5.
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... contemporary critical debates . Accordingly , in this study I use crime fiction as a point of departure for three related inquiries : a reconsideration of some of the categories that we use to describe and understand literature ...
... contemporary critical debates . Accordingly , in this study I use crime fiction as a point of departure for three related inquiries : a reconsideration of some of the categories that we use to describe and understand literature ...
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... contemporary postmodern theory , particularly Baudrillardian postmodernism . Following this discus- sion , in the conclusion I explore two central issues : first , what it means to refer to crime fiction as postmodern , and second , the ...
... contemporary postmodern theory , particularly Baudrillardian postmodernism . Following this discus- sion , in the conclusion I explore two central issues : first , what it means to refer to crime fiction as postmodern , and second , the ...
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.