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From: Radical Philosophy[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Kraniauskas argues that Ellroy’s novel is an example of both crime and historical fiction.] … history, the billiondollar speedupJohn Dos Passos, USA, 1938 Blood’s a Rover...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)No American author has produced more writing, had a greater influence on society, and received less serious critical attention than Upton Sinclair. The depository of Sinclair manuscripts, books, and letters at the Lilly...
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From: The United States Review and Literary Gazette[Dana was an American poet, journalist, and editor during the early nineteenth century. In the following excerpt from a review of the 1827 edition of Brown's novels, he underscores the uniformity of Brown's subject...
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From: Boston University Studies in English[(essay date 1956) In the following essay, Rovit uses what he terms “the symbol-cluster” technique to elucidate Roberts’s works, characterizing her as “a non-typical American writer.”] Throughout the...
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From: Understanding Narrative[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Rabinowitz discusses the ways in which works of detective fiction “conceptualize the nature of truth.”] “What Do You Want Us to Think the Facts Are?”: Epistemology and...
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From: Sir Walter Scott[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Lauber offers a thematic analysis of Scott's Ivanhoe that notes Scott's criticism of the chivalric code and how the story's reliance upon a central Norman-Saxon conflict was...
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From: ELH[(essay date winter 2007) In the following essay, Çelikkol explores the tensions between nationalism and global commerce in the two novels. In Çelikkol's view, Scott "locates the roots of modern psychological alienation"...
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From: Still in Print: The Southern Novel Today[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Bjerre reads One Foot in Eden as “a powerful story with Old Testament allusions, echoes of Shakespearean tragedy, and crime novel aspirations, all written in a wonderful...
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From: Children's Literature Association Quarterly[(essay date winter 2008) In the following essay, Gooding gives a psychoanalytic reading of Coraline in the context of children's literature.] When Coraline appeared in the spring of 2002, Neil Gaiman had already...
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From: Clues[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Willen addresses the contributions of women of color to detective fiction.] The impact of feminist writers on American detective fiction is becoming well documented. Maureen...
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From: In the Beginning: First Novels in Mystery Series[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Isaac discusses the composition and literary significance of Stout’s first Wolfe novel, Fer-de-Lance, enumerating the distinctive features of Archie Goodwin and Wolfe,...
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From: Sébastien Japrisot: The Art of Crime[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Desnain notes that Japrisot’s novels are not centrally concerned with determining the identity of the criminal. She contends that Japrisot instead focused on the psychology of...
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From: Conversations with James Ellroy[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, originally published in 1992, Kihn describes Ellroy’s beginnings as a crime novelist, his attitude toward his work, the style and diction of his writing—which Kihn characterizes...
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From: Plotting the Past: Metamorphoses of Historical Narrative in Modern Italian Fiction
Historical Reconfigurations and the Ideology of Desire: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s Il gattopardo
[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Della Coletta references a letter Lampedusa wrote to a friend in which he denied that The Leopard was a historical novel. Della Coletta interprets this to mean that the work’s... -
From: Hispanófila[(essay date May 2009) In the following essay, Weldt-Basson surveys the tradition of historical fiction in Latin America, focusing on four genre-defining characteristics: the interplay of history and the individual, the...
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From: Swedish Crime Fiction: The Making of Nordic Noir[(essay date 2014) In the following essay, Bergman examines Mankell’s treatment of otherness in The Return of the Dancing Master, Kennedys hjärna (2005; Kennedy’s Brain), and the Wallander novel The Troubled Man....
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From: Laurie Halse Anderson: Speaking in Tongues[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Glenn provides an overview of Anderson’s historical novel Fever 1793. She summarizes the novel’s critical reception, outlines the plot and structure, charts the story’s origin...
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From: The Literary Criterion[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, originally presented at a conference in 1986, Srinath uses Train to Pakistan as an example in a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of historical novels.] One has to...
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From: South Atlantic Review[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Swanson discusses The Investigation in relation to various literary movements, concluding that it is most akin to “the Latin American new novel of the Boom and before.”] The...
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From: Walter Scott and the Historical Imagination[(essay date 1979) In the following excerpt, Brown views Ivanhoe as Scott's most self-conscious attempt to resolve the problems posed by an artistic approach to history.] Scott's Dedicatory Epistle to Ivanhoe...