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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 89, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedONE OF THE GREAT PLEASURES of teaching in a university can be revisiting particular writings that have become old friends. Dropping by once or twice a year, you find that your friends--or you--have changed slightly,...
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From: National ReviewThe Suburbs of Hell has been shoehorned into a gothic / who dunit genre. It will essay more than that, but, foot-bound by convention, never really attain flank speed. And, as though gone spiteful from restraint, it also...
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From: Sojourner: The Women's Forum[(interview date March 1989) In the following interview, Paretsky discusses her choice to write in the detective genre and her character V. I. Warshawski.] Sarah Paretsky, author of a series of mystery novels featuring...
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From: Notes on Contemporary Literature[(essay date 1973) In the following essay, Banks notes the prevalence of corrupt professionals in Spillane's Mike Hammer novels.] Anti-professionalism is not a recognized characteristic of the Sex and Sadism detective...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 148. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS:Thomas Bailey AldrichThe Stillwater Tragedy (novel) 1880Honoré de BalzacIllusions perdues (novel) 1843 [Lost Illusions, 1925]Mary Elizabeth BraddonLady Audley's Secret (novel) 1862A Strange World...
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From: Armchair Detective[(essay date 1978) In the following essay, Geherin presents a survey of detective fiction from the 1970s, finding writers Robert Parker Spenser, Roger Simon, and Andrew Bergman faithful to the hard-boiled tradition.]...
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From: Claremont Quarterly[(essay date Winter 1962) In the following essay, Benedict considers the culpability of Christie's murders, arguing that Christie may have paved the way for justifiable murders in mystery fiction.] Just as in politics...
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From: Narrative[(essay date May 1998) In the following essay, Walton argues that the short story anthology is an ideal medium through which lesser-known women crime-mystery-detective authors can gain a popular readership in an industry...
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From: Western American Literature[(essay date fall 1984) In the following essay, Fontana describes The Big Sleep as an ironic or "failed romance" in which "the completion of the chivalric quest ends," not with "closure, fulfillment, and renewal," but...
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From: English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920[(essay date April 2000) In the following essay, Favor asserts that Doyle's representation of women and foreigners in his novels and Sherlock Holmes stories portrays both parties as "colonized others," which must be...
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From: Feminism in Women's Detective Fiction[(essay date 1995) In the following excerpt, Wilson discusses the protagonists of novelists Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, and Sara Paretsky, concluding that "Female hard-boiled fiction offers a mild challenge to the...
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From: Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor[(essay date winter-spring 1999) In the following essay, Hoppenstand praises the combination of horror and humor in "When the World Screamed," deeming the story to be "an early hybrid of the modern science fiction horror...
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From: The Literary Digest International Book Review[In the following review, Field highlights the extraordinary skills of Bramah's blind detective Max Carrados and calls the stories in The Eyes of Max Carrados “perplexing, entertaining, ingenious, and very well...
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From: School Library JournalGr 9 Up--An unusual and uneven collection of tales [Detective Stories] from across the past century, though most date to the first half of that period. Authors include masters such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha...
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From: The Literature of Roguery[In this excerpt from his study of the connection between picaresque and detective literature, Chandler suggests that Gaboriau's novels display characteristics of both genres.] [Gaboriau perfected] the literature of...
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From: International Journal of Women's Studies[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, Frick discusses Collins's ambivalent treatment of fallen women in his novels.] Introduction In her recent study of the Victorian heroine, Woman and the Demon, Nina Auerbach...
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From:Drama for Students (Vol. 19. )In Detective Story, Kingsley makes a number of references to other works of literature, including the Sermon on the Mount from biblical literature, the Oracle at Delphi from ancient Greek mythology, and the...
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From: Poe's Children: Connections Between Tales of Terror and Detection[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Magistrale and Poger define Edgar Allan Poe as a quintessentially Romantic writer whose detective stories are best understood when examined within the context of his tales of...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Agatha Christie is not only the most successful writer of detective fiction, she is one of the best. Ingredients of a good detective story include a watertight puzzle with all clues given; red herrings swimming as...
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From: The New Republic[Seldes was an American critic and journalist who published a variety of works on the theater, motion pictures, radio, and television. In the following excerpt, he objects to the "pedantry" of Philo Vance.] The amazing...