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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 48
Página 3
... theory encompasses fiction as varied as The Blue Room ( Simenon ) , Crime and Punishment ( Dostoyevsky ) , Lolita ( Nabokov ) , The Big Sleep ( Chandler ) , The Murder at the Vicarage ( Christie ) , The Secret Agent ( Conrad ) , The Spy ...
... theory encompasses fiction as varied as The Blue Room ( Simenon ) , Crime and Punishment ( Dostoyevsky ) , Lolita ( Nabokov ) , The Big Sleep ( Chandler ) , The Murder at the Vicarage ( Christie ) , The Secret Agent ( Conrad ) , The Spy ...
Página 4
... theory as such but only as a criticism of the excessive formalism of critics whose work is marked by the attempt to identify a text with a genre on the basis of a single convention -- the aim of this interpretive process then being the ...
... theory as such but only as a criticism of the excessive formalism of critics whose work is marked by the attempt to identify a text with a genre on the basis of a single convention -- the aim of this interpretive process then being the ...
Página 6
... theory of the novel as a hybridization of preexisting genres , drawn from both high and low culture , has been especially useful . For Bakhtin , the provenance of a given genre is less important than the articulations it makes about ...
... theory of the novel as a hybridization of preexisting genres , drawn from both high and low culture , has been especially useful . For Bakhtin , the provenance of a given genre is less important than the articulations it makes about ...
Página 7
... theory , I want to acknowledge a general debt to post- structuralism , especially the later work of Michel Foucault . For an example of my use of post - structuralist theory , see chapter 2. For a more critical evaluation of post ...
... theory , I want to acknowledge a general debt to post- structuralism , especially the later work of Michel Foucault . For an example of my use of post - structuralist theory , see chapter 2. For a more critical evaluation of post ...
Página 9
... theory of modernism , which is developed most fully in chapter 6 , in which I explore the structural , conventional , and epistemological similarities between mod- ernism and detective fiction , and in chapter 7 , in which I offer ...
... theory of modernism , which is developed most fully in chapter 6 , in which I explore the structural , conventional , and epistemological similarities between mod- ernism and detective fiction , and in chapter 7 , in which I offer ...
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.