Crime FictionPsychology Press, 2005 - 170 Seiten Crime Fiction provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels, short stories, films and televisions series, John Scaggs:
Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for all those studying crime fiction and concludes with a look at future directions for the genre in the twentieth-first century. |
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Introduction | 1 |
A Chronology of Crime | 7 |
Crime Stories as Cautionary Tales | 13 |
Crime Fiction and Policing | 17 |
The Golden Age to the Present | 26 |
Mystery and Detective Fiction | 33 |
The Figure of the Amateur Detective | 39 |
From Purloined Letters to Murder | 43 |
The Development of the Procedural | 87 |
Characteristics of the Procedural | 91 |
The Magic Bullet of Procedural Reassurance | 98 |
Appropriations of the Procedural | 100 |
The Crime Thriller | 105 |
The Noir Thriller | 108 |
The AntiConspiracy Thriller | 117 |
Historical Crime Fiction | 122 |
Maintaining Social Order and the Status Quo | 46 |
Settings and SubGenres | 50 |
The HardBoiled Mode | 55 |
The Private Eye Hero | 58 |
The Myth of the Frontier | 64 |
Modernity and the City | 70 |
Appropriation of the HardBoiled Mode | 77 |
The Police Procedural | 85 |
Crime History and Realism | 125 |
The Case of The Name of the Rose | 135 |
Postmodernism and the AntiDetective Novel | 139 |
GLOSSARY | 144 |
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING | 149 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 151 |
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