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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... evaluating society that has since become a convention of crime fiction . These eighteenth - century fictions of ... evaluate different historical moments in the experience of modernity is not an accidental feature ; rather , it is a ...
... evaluating society that has since become a convention of crime fiction . These eighteenth - century fictions of ... evaluate different historical moments in the experience of modernity is not an accidental feature ; rather , it is a ...
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... evaluation of literary merit . This has the side effect of turning his study into a list of his favorite ( and not - so - favorite ) crime novels . But in one sense , this candor is refreshing given that these judgments are not passed ...
... evaluation of literary merit . This has the side effect of turning his study into a list of his favorite ( and not - so - favorite ) crime novels . But in one sense , this candor is refreshing given that these judgments are not passed ...
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... Evaluations 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.
... Evaluations 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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... 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- ence of ...
... 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- ence of ...
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... evaluation of these dismissals is used to pave the way for a more broadly based theory of modernism , which is developed most fully in chapter 6 , in which I explore the structural , conventional , and epistemological similarities ...
... evaluation of these dismissals is used to pave the way for a more broadly based theory of modernism , which is developed most fully in chapter 6 , in which I explore the structural , conventional , and epistemological similarities ...
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.