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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... means of criticizing society . While Godwin's analysis proceeds from an anarchist premise the notion that although ... mean ? 3 Although sensationalism accounts for part of their interest , it cannot explain it entirely , if only because ...
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... mean primarily all the cultural practices produced for a mass audience for the purposes of entertainment ; I am less concerned therefore with the sense of popular culture that is used to refer to those largely localized practices whose ...
... mean primarily all the cultural practices produced for a mass audience for the purposes of entertainment ; I am less concerned therefore with the sense of popular culture that is used to refer to those largely localized practices whose ...
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... means . Instead , it refers to the process in democracies in which a dominant class or class alliance struggles for intellectual , moral , and political ascen- dancy by winning the consent of subordinate groups and classes . Hegemony ...
... means . Instead , it refers to the process in democracies in which a dominant class or class alliance struggles for intellectual , moral , and political ascen- dancy by winning the consent of subordinate groups and classes . Hegemony ...
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... means to be caught up in this " maelstrom of perpetual disintegration and renewal , of struggle and contradiction , of ambiguity and anguish . " Much of this tension , energy , and conflict comes from the British and American investment ...
... means to be caught up in this " maelstrom of perpetual disintegration and renewal , of struggle and contradiction , of ambiguity and anguish . " Much of this tension , energy , and conflict comes from the British and American investment ...
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... means to refer to crime fiction as postmodern , and second , the extent to which fiction offers a dynamic model for understanding , and even transforming , histori- cal reality . One final note on the structure of the book . Fiction ...
... means to refer to crime fiction as postmodern , and second , the extent to which fiction offers a dynamic model for understanding , and even transforming , histori- cal reality . One final note on the structure of the book . Fiction ...
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.