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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... social experience upon which modern crime fiction depends - that is , the transi- tion in Western countries from a judicial process centered on confession and torture to one centered on a trial by evidence . As Ernst Bloch has noted ...
... social experience upon which modern crime fiction depends - that is , the transi- tion in Western countries from a judicial process centered on confession and torture to one centered on a trial by evidence . As Ernst Bloch has noted ...
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... social , and political life " ( 17 ) . The third phase consists of the twentieth century , in which modernity , paradoxically , becomes problem- atic ( " conceived in numerous fragmentary ways , [ it ] loses much of its vividness ...
... social , and political life " ( 17 ) . The third phase consists of the twentieth century , in which modernity , paradoxically , becomes problem- atic ( " conceived in numerous fragmentary ways , [ it ] loses much of its vividness ...
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... social norms , this genre offers fictions of what modern experience is like . Hence , the fiction examined in this study also explores the experience of empire , and the laws , written and unwritten , that help to define , regulate ...
... social norms , this genre offers fictions of what modern experience is like . Hence , the fiction examined in this study also explores the experience of empire , and the laws , written and unwritten , that help to define , regulate ...
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... social phenomenon in the second half of the nineteenth century , which , not coincidentally , marks a crucial time in the life of both Great Britain and America in terms of the importance played by mass culture in the dissemination of ...
... social phenomenon in the second half of the nineteenth century , which , not coincidentally , marks a crucial time in the life of both Great Britain and America in terms of the importance played by mass culture in the dissemination of ...
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... social life which had been the dominant tendency in idealist cultural thought . Thus the full possibilities of the concept of culture as a constitutive social process , creating specific and different ' ways of life , ' which could have ...
... social life which had been the dominant tendency in idealist cultural thought . Thus the full possibilities of the concept of culture as a constitutive social process , creating specific and different ' ways of life , ' which could have ...
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.