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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: Nineteenth-Century Prose[(essay date fall 2002) In the following essay, Byerly argues that in his works "De Quincey uses ... the picturesque [to distance] himself from both his actions and his own body."] Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an...
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From:Hecate (Vol. 46, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThis essay targets a version of the "family man," in media cultural representation, that serves patriarchal and capitalist interests as a gendered figure of social/structural support for violence against women. It reads...
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From: New York Times Book Review[(review date 2 April 1995) In the following review, Malone praises James's Original Sin as a well-written mystery novel.] The latest novel from P. D. James, Original Sin, is a portrait of Peverell Press, a venerable...
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From: Booklist[(review date 1 September 2004) In the following review, Scott offers a mixed response to Tropic of Murder.] In one of Raphael's last two mysteries, there was no murder for the first two-thirds of the book, and in the...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersTruman Capote, as obsessed with fame and fortune as with penning great words, was a writer who became as well-known for his late-night talk show appearances as for his prose. With In Cold Blood, Capote advanced a new...
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From: Sentenced to Death: The American Novel and Capital Punishment[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Guest demonstrates how In Cold Blood "presents a sort of narrative analogue" of the modern criminal justice system in the way in which it focuses on the criminal "biographies"...
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From: Steinbeck Quarterly[(essay date summer-fall 1989) In the following essay, Ditsky contends that the character of the Slav girl Jelka Sepic in "The Murder" is the key to Steinbeck's experiment in manipulating the role of the narrator.]...
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From: Publishers WeeklyVande Velde's (The Rumpelstiltskin Problem) fairy tale-like novel [Magic Can Be Murder] set once upon a time features two witches, 17-year-old Nola and her mother. The pair works for hire at odd jobs, and Nola hides her...
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From: The New York Times Book ReviewA story of crime and punishment should be a morality tale. When a murder is committed in fiction, we expect there to be a lesson in it that justifies the taking of a life. But sometimes, in an actual crime, there is no...
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From: Dorothy L. Sayers[(essay date 1980) In the following essay, Durkin surveys Sayers's late novels--from Strong Poison in 1930 to Busman's Honeymoon in 1937--stressing the author's contributions to the detective story genre, especially her...
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From: Poison, Play, and Duel: A Study in Hamlet[(essay date 1971) In the following essay, Alexander assesses three dominant symbols in Hamlet that define the drama's action--poisoning, theatrical performance, and the duel.] Hamlet is a play of ideas. The problems...
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From: The ObserverAh, and so at last we know! Mr Kenneth Tynan's chief literary concern is the integrity and responsibility of the writer. But how very surprising—when one considers that these are the particular qualities most notably...
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From: Library Journal[(review date August 2004) In the following review, Klett underlines the vivid characters in Tropic of Murder.] Untenured professor Nick Hoffman (The Edith Wharton Murders) and partner Stefan vacation in the Caribbean...
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From: The Fortnightly Review[Stephen's reaction to De Quincey represents a sharp contrast to the general opinion of De Quincey critics in the nineteenth century. While Stephen acknowledges the poetic and musical qualities of De Quincey's...
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From: Nation[(essay date 7 July 2008) In the essay below, Popper documents the enormous impact of Goldman's coverage of the Gerardi case, including the role of The Art of Political Murder in the 2007 Guatemalan presidential...
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From: Nation[(review date 1 October 2007) In the review below, Canby critiques The Art of Political Murder, recalling the circumstances surrounding the crime and praising Goldman's account of the assassination and its aftermath as a...
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From: Steinbeck Quarterly[(essay date summer-fall 1989) In the following essay, Hadella focuses on point of view in Steinbeck's O. Henry Prize-winning story "The Murder" to try to address questions about the violence and confusion in the tale.]...
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From: Carolyn G. Heilbrun[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Boken presents extended analysis of the sixth through eleventh Amanda Cross mysteries.] "Dabbling in revolutionary thought" Overview of the Novels Of all the Amanda Cross...
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From: Nineteenth-Century Prose[(essay date fall 2001) In the following essay, Snyder maintains that the "liminal interspaces charged with the threat of transgressive violence" in De Quincey's works "become metonymic analogues for his conception of...