Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction
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A01=Jerome H. Delamater
A01=Ruth Prigozy
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Author_Ruth Prigozy
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- ISBN 9780313304620
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 1997
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Combining theoretical and practical approaches, this collection of essays explores classic detective fiction from a variety of contemporary viewpoints. Among the diverse perspectives are those which interrogate the way the genre reflects important social and cultural attitudes, contributes to a reader's ability to adapt to the challenges of daily life, and provides alternate takes on the role of the detective as an investigator and arbiter of truth.
Part I looks at the nature of and the audience for detective fiction, as well as at the genre as a literary form. This section includes an inquiry into the role of the detective; an application of object-relations psychology to the genre; and analyses of recent literary criticism positing that traditional detective fiction contained the seeds of its own subversion. Part II applies a variety of theoretical positions to Agatha Christie and her heirs in the British ratiocinative tradition. A concluding essay positions the genre within the middle-class traditions of the novel since its inception in the eighteenth century. Of interest to all scholars and students of detective fiction and British popular culture.
JEROME H. DELAMATER is Professor of Communication at the School of Communication, Hofstra University.
RUTH PRIGOZY is Professor of English at Hofstra University.
