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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... things , helped me to rethink its architecture and argument . I would also like to thank two earlier teachers of mine at University College Dublin , Declan Kiberd and Seamus Deane , for first helping me to realize that there are more ...
... things , helped me to rethink its architecture and argument . I would also like to thank two earlier teachers of mine at University College Dublin , Declan Kiberd and Seamus Deane , for first helping me to realize that there are more ...
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... things , lurid " investi- gations " of crimes , criminals , or criminal patterns supposedly sweeping the nation . Talk shows , likewise , seek to exploit the American fascination with crime by interviewing criminals , victims , or the ...
... things , lurid " investi- gations " of crimes , criminals , or criminal patterns supposedly sweeping the nation . Talk shows , likewise , seek to exploit the American fascination with crime by interviewing criminals , victims , or the ...
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... things — a torn web of lies at the cost of equally torn limbs - that no one but the perpetrator and the judge could know . The effect was unthinkable atrocity , the worthless extortion of guilt , against which the Enlightenment rebelled ...
... things — a torn web of lies at the cost of equally torn limbs - that no one but the perpetrator and the judge could know . The effect was unthinkable atrocity , the worthless extortion of guilt , against which the Enlightenment rebelled ...
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... things , I argue that the traditional dismissal of genre fiction cannot logically be sustained because all fiction is genre fiction ; all fiction acquires an identity through its incorporation of genres ( Bakhtin 288-89 ) . This ...
... things , I argue that the traditional dismissal of genre fiction cannot logically be sustained because all fiction is genre fiction ; all fiction acquires an identity through its incorporation of genres ( Bakhtin 288-89 ) . This ...
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... thing we are . Modern environments and experiences cut across all boundaries of geography and ethnicity , of class and nationality , of religion and ideology : in this sense , modernity can be said to unite all mankind . But it is a ...
... thing we are . Modern environments and experiences cut across all boundaries of geography and ethnicity , of class and nationality , of religion and ideology : in this sense , modernity can be said to unite all mankind . But it is a ...
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.