A reading of Upfield's detective series in terms of James Donald's idea of the 'grotesque', shifting between idealised national type and their 'degenerate low Others'.
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this article takes into account the Argentine detective story in the decade of 1970, focusing specifically on the study of the narrative particularities and analysis of detective fiction in Juan Carlos Martini´s crime trilogy. The article presents Martini´s work from the problematic of parody, and critic assimilation of literally convention of hard...
Although the notion of an absolute Truth is conceived in post-structuralist times as a myth generated by logocentric thought, it remains at the core of a highly popular narrative genre such as detective fiction. From its inception, this specific iteration of an epistemologically unquestionable Truth depends greatly upon the urban paradigm, which ge...
This paper proposes to confront the tenets of detective fiction and postmodernism in Jonathan Coe's What a Carve up! (1994), principally by focusing on one of the main assumptions related to both domains, which is that they mainly entail playfulness, either through the solving of an enigma or through parody and pastiche, and may therefore be imperv...
This thesis examines the meaning, origin and influence of Edgar Allan Poe’s notion of the ‘Bi-Part Soul’, and the associated theme of duality, in selected texts of nineteenth-century detective fiction. Poe’s detective opus, ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ (1841), ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’ (1842) and ‘The Purloined Letter’ (1844), features the ec...
L’auteur traite du rôle de l’écriture psychanalytique dans la perlaboration de sa réaction contre-transférentielle à l’égard de la transgression sexuelle d’un collègue et explore notamment son contre-transfert non seulement vis-à-vis de la psychanalyse comme profession, mais aussi de son identité d’analyste. L’intérêt que l’auteur porte aux intrigu...
The classic detective literary convention had been transformed several times before the detective-fiction genre was created by the end of the 19th century. It presented the adventures of individuals that entwined criminal mysteries. It is undeniable that its prestige in the literary world has risen, especially since the middle of the 20th century, ...
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Working within the parameters of the detective genre, Marcos McPeek Villatoro's Home Killlings provides a unique portrait of Latino immigration and integration in the US South. The representation of lead detective Romilia Chacón as a Latina southerner with Salvadoran roots coupled with the incorporation of Central American history calls attention t...
