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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... realism versus modernism , and so on.5 Paradoxically enough , many of the techniques and forms of popular literature have been appropriated by high literary forms - a process the Russian formalists referred to as " the canoniza- tion of ...
... realism versus modernism , and so on.5 Paradoxically enough , many of the techniques and forms of popular literature have been appropriated by high literary forms - a process the Russian formalists referred to as " the canoniza- tion of ...
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... ( realism , modernism , postmodernism ) ; the articulation of the relationships between fiction and the dominant ideological values in historical periods dominated by the struggle to extend or maintain empires , from the first half of the ...
... ( realism , modernism , postmodernism ) ; the articulation of the relationships between fiction and the dominant ideological values in historical periods dominated by the struggle to extend or maintain empires , from the first half of the ...
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... ( realist ) as well as emer- gent ( postmodern ) elements.10 Hence , while my readings move among " realist , " modernist and postmodernist texts , my overall contention is that these modes of representation are ... realism is Introduction 9.
... ( realist ) as well as emer- gent ( postmodern ) elements.10 Hence , while my readings move among " realist , " modernist and postmodernist texts , my overall contention is that these modes of representation are ... realism is Introduction 9.
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... realism is absorbed into the dominant field of modernism . Chapter 7 then examines how these literary strategies portray or betray - the hidden cracks in the facade of order and stability in the pre - World War II empire nations of ...
... realism is absorbed into the dominant field of modernism . Chapter 7 then examines how these literary strategies portray or betray - the hidden cracks in the facade of order and stability in the pre - World War II empire nations of ...
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... realist writing that is widely read and enjoyed , despite its less - glamorous , low - culture status . 11. For more on this , see Richard Ohmann's " Where Did Mass Culture Come From ? The Case of Magazines " ( in his Politics of ...
... realist writing that is widely read and enjoyed , despite its less - glamorous , low - culture status . 11. For more on this , see Richard Ohmann's " Where Did Mass Culture Come From ? The Case of Magazines " ( in his Politics of ...
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.