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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... Fiction , crime , and empire : clues to modernity and postmodernism / Jon Thompson . p . cm . Includes ... fiction - History and criticism . 2. Crime in literature . 3. Detective and mystery stories , English - History and ...
... Fiction , crime , and empire : clues to modernity and postmodernism / Jon Thompson . p . cm . Includes ... fiction - History and criticism . 2. Crime in literature . 3. Detective and mystery stories , English - History and ...
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... Fiction 13 PART I The Emergence of the Modern Detective Hero 2 The Power of Knowledge : Poe's Detective Fiction and the Ideology of Rationalism 43 3 The Adventurous Detective : Conan Doyle and Imperialism 60 PART II Empire and Espionage ...
... Fiction 13 PART I The Emergence of the Modern Detective Hero 2 The Power of Knowledge : Poe's Detective Fiction and the Ideology of Rationalism 43 3 The Adventurous Detective : Conan Doyle and Imperialism 60 PART II Empire and Espionage ...
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... fiction . Indeed , the English novel has its roots in fictional- ized accounts of criminal confessions , such as the ... detective - fiction genre as a means of criticizing society . While Godwin's analysis proceeds from an anarchist ...
... fiction . Indeed , the English novel has its roots in fictional- ized accounts of criminal confessions , such as the ... detective - fiction genre as a means of criticizing society . While Godwin's analysis proceeds from an anarchist ...
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... detective is no older than the evidentiary hearing itself . ( 246-47 ) Bloch's analysis positions detective fiction within the historical context of Enlightenment societies and their development of evidentiary trials : that ...
... detective is no older than the evidentiary hearing itself . ( 246-47 ) Bloch's analysis positions detective fiction within the historical context of Enlightenment societies and their development of evidentiary trials : that ...
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... fiction . ( Conan Doyle's detec- tive fiction , for example , is read as a hybrid of the adventure novel , sensational literature , and the ratiocinative detective story formula refined by Poe . ) Ultimately , this theory of genre leads ...
... fiction . ( Conan Doyle's detec- tive fiction , for example , is read as a hybrid of the adventure novel , sensational literature , and the ratiocinative detective story formula refined by Poe . ) Ultimately , this theory of genre leads ...
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.