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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... critical writing , I would like to thank Ann Lowry of the University of Illinois Press . For his rigorous and helpful readings of this book , I am indebted to Bruce Henricksen and the other , anonymous outside reader for the University ...
... critical writing , I would like to thank Ann Lowry of the University of Illinois Press . For his rigorous and helpful readings of this book , I am indebted to Bruce Henricksen and the other , anonymous outside reader for the University ...
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... critical tendency to denigrate popular fiction ( or the equally repre- hensible tendency to uncritically valorize it ) ; indeed , his readings demonstrate that crime fiction cuts across " high " and " low " culture . By contrast , John ...
... critical tendency to denigrate popular fiction ( or the equally repre- hensible tendency to uncritically valorize it ) ; indeed , his readings demonstrate that crime fiction cuts across " high " and " low " culture . By contrast , John ...
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... critical evaluation of post - structuralist premises , see chapter 8 and the conclusion . As this book's subtitle suggests , my inquiry is carried out within the chronological framework of what Marshall Berman has called " the experi ...
... critical evaluation of post - structuralist premises , see chapter 8 and the conclusion . As this book's subtitle suggests , my inquiry is carried out within the chronological framework of what Marshall Berman has called " the experi ...
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... 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 ( realism , modernism ...
... 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 ( realism , modernism ...
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... critical concept . The historical context of modernism is seen as a response to the experience of the metropolis . As a critical concept , modernism is assessed by examin- ing the ways in which influential readers and critics have ...
... critical concept . The historical context of modernism is seen as a response to the experience of the metropolis . As a critical concept , modernism is assessed by examin- ing the ways in which influential readers and critics have ...
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.