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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... political corruption . Every fall the three major American television networks ( not to mention cable TV ) launch their new line of programs , many of which take crime as their primary subject . Although most of these tend to focus on ...
... political corruption . Every fall the three major American television networks ( not to mention cable TV ) launch their new line of programs , many of which take crime as their primary subject . Although most of these tend to focus on ...
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... political articulations made by popular culture as a way of analyzing different cul- tural formations . These readings are contributions toward an increased sense of the interactions of high and low culture ; or , more accurately , they ...
... political articulations made by popular culture as a way of analyzing different cul- tural formations . These readings are contributions toward an increased sense of the interactions of high and low culture ; or , more accurately , they ...
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... politics of culture . One final note on my theoretical method : although in later chapters I take up in more detail the ... political life " ( 17 ) . The third phase consists of the twentieth century , in which modernity , paradoxically ...
... politics of culture . One final note on my theoretical method : although in later chapters I take up in more detail the ... political life " ( 17 ) . The third phase consists of the twentieth century , in which modernity , paradoxically ...
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... political position . 9. Berman's rich , magisterial argument is contained in All That Is Solid Melts Into Air . Berman's reading of modernity has greatly influenced my own , as any reading of subsequent chapters will reveal . 10. The ...
... political position . 9. Berman's rich , magisterial argument is contained in All That Is Solid Melts Into Air . Berman's reading of modernity has greatly influenced my own , as any reading of subsequent chapters will reveal . 10. The ...
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... Magazines " ( in his Politics of Letters ) . Ohmann's essay provides an invaluable discussion of the origins of mass culture in America . Preliminary Mappings : Modernism and Genre Fiction | 1 For 12 Fiction , Crime , and Empire.
... Magazines " ( in his Politics of Letters ) . Ohmann's essay provides an invaluable discussion of the origins of mass culture in America . Preliminary Mappings : Modernism and Genre Fiction | 1 For 12 Fiction , Crime , and Empire.
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.