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Steere, Elizabeth. "“The mystery of the Myrtle Room”: Reading Wilkie Collins’ The Dead Secret as an Early Female Detective Novel." Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 5, no. 1 (2023): 58–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.46911/yrrl8350.

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While Wilkie Collins’ novels The Moonstone (1868) and The Woman in White (1859-60) have long been accepted as part of the early mystery canon, Collins’ earlier novel The Dead Secret (1857) is rarely included. The Dead Secret is here reconsidered as one of the earliest English female detective novels, revealing its heretofore unrecognised significance to the genre of detective fiction and the evolution of the literary female detective. The Dead Secret’s protagonist, Rosamond, is almost Holmesian in her methodical collection of evidence and tactical lines of questioning to arrive at the solution

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Stoecklein, Mary. "Native Narratives, Mystery Writing, and the Osage Oil Murders: Examining Mean Spirit and The Osage Rose." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 42, no. 3 (2018): 137–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.42.3.stoecklein.

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Through analysis of two debut novels, Linda Hogan's Pulitzer-Prize-nominated murdermystery Mean Spirit 1990 and Tom Holm's private eye detective story The Osage Rose 2008, this article considers what Native-authored mystery fiction has to offer in terms of self-representation of Indigenous history and culture. Paying particular attention to detective fiction genre elements—such as the novels' openings, the detectives, the forms of detection, and the resolution—shows how Hogan and Holm employ the mystery genre to present Native narratives about the Osage oil murders, and, given their ability to

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Malmgren, Carl D. "Anatomy of Murder: Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction." Journal of Popular Culture 30, no. 4 (1997): 115–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1997.3004_115.x.

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f, f. "Daily life and literature in China's modern times, its recollection and representations: Focusing on ‘Detective Novels’." Society for Chinese Humanities in Korea 85 (December 31, 2023): 355–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.35955/jch.2023.12.85.355.

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Modern China had all the conditions for the development of popular fiction such as detective novels, thanks to the development of various modern media, the expansion of mass education, and urbanization. In addition to the basic principles of presenting a case and resolving it logically, detective novels have secured their own unique territory based on the selection of themes that attract readers' attention, the surprise of unexpected endings, and the scientific knowledge and rational thinking that can convince readers. The popularity of modern detective novels in China is closely related to th

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Novitz, Julian. "Disco Elysium as Gothic fiction." Baltic Screen Media Review 9, no. 1 (2021): 32–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/bsmr-2021-0004.

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Abstract Disco Elysium demonstrates many hallmarks of the Gothic through its storyline and representational elements, particularly its emphasis on the instability of its protagonist, the sense of decline and decay conveyed through its setting, and the interconnected secret histories that are revealed through exploration. Furthermore, many of the game’s stylistic and ludic features, such as its dense description and emotive language, and its overwhelming array of options, interactions, and responses, can be understood as engagements with the uncanny and disorienting excess of the Gothic traditi

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Gomel, Elana. "Mystery, Apocalypse and Utopia: The Case of the Ontological Detective Story." Science Fiction Studies 22, Part 3 (1995): 343–56. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.22.3.0343.

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Apocalypse in sf is often linked to a utopian transformation that creates a “brave new world” on the ruins of the old one. This is a pattern that has often been noted by critics. However, a number of sf works display an interesting twist on this pattern, linking the apocalypse and the subsequent utopian transformation to the solution of an ontological mystery. Thus, they form an sf subgenre that might be described as the “ontological detective story.” The typical plot of the ontological detective story, exemplified by Christopher Priest’s Inverted World (1979), centers on the protagonist growi

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Parkinson, Gavin. "The Delvaux Mystery: Painting, the Nouveau Roman, and Art History." Nottingham French Studies 51, no. 3 (2012): 298–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2012.0029.

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Meant to signal in its parodic title both the causal, deductive conventions of academic art history and those of the detective story, this essay looks at the work of the Belgian artist Paul Delvaux (1897–1994), and discusses the uses to which that œuvre has been put by several of the pioneers of the twentieth-century novel, such as Michel Butor, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Julio Cortázar, and J.G. Ballard. It goes on to speculate as to why so many French novelists from the 1950s who interrogated specifically narrative form, together with those inspired by their example, responded to Del

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Gómez-de-Tejada, Jesús. "Parodia, intertextualidad y sátira en la narrativa policial de Lorenzo Lunar Cardedo." Studia Romanica Posnaniensia 47, no. 1 (2020): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/strop.2020.471.001.

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Detective fiction as parodic reformulation of genre’s defining patterns has a long history in the Latin American tradition: Borges, Bioy Casares, Soriano, Levrero, Ibargüengoitia, etc. Besides, the evolution of Latin American detective genre has always been characterized by a progressive focalization in the social aspects over the detective story line which has served as a mask to depict in a critical way the flaws of the region’s societies and governments. In nowadays Cuba it could be highlighted the crime narrative of parodic slant by Lorenzo Lunar Cardedo. Among the major features of Lunar

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Freier, Mary P. "A Brief History of Scholarly Study of Detective Fiction, with Particular Attention to the Detective & Mystery Fiction Area of the Popular Culture Association." Collection Management 29, no. 3-4 (2004): 189–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j105v29n03_14.

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Jang, Kyungjae. "Constructing and Consuming Space in Detective Fiction Tourism: The Case of the Detective Conan Mystery Tour." Journal of Popular Culture 54, no. 6 (2021): 1355–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13089.

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Ventura, Daniela. "La logique de l’enquête chez Noël Vindry." Studi Francesi 202 (LXVIII | I) (2024): 75–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/11wi0.

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The primary aim of this paper is to bring out of oblivion Noël Vindry, one of the greatest French Detective writers of the “Golden Age” mysteries who has nothing to envy John Dikson Carr, an American master of the so-called “locked room mystery”. We will particularly highlight the interest of La Cinquième cartouche from an inferential point of view, by focusing our attention on the modus cogitandi of the detective in charge of the criminal investigation. It is from contingent facts that he arrives, through reasoning, at the rational explanation of an enigmatic fact by reconstituting, backwards

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Togola, Adama. "Du polar d’Afrique francophone et des stratégies pour contourner la marge instituée." International Journal of Francophone Studies 24, no. 3 (2021): 207–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijfs_00038_1.

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This study attempts to reassess the critical discourse on the Francophone African detective fiction in order to show how the dynamics of genres and discourse in the crime novel participates in a reflection on writing and the boundaries between so-called popular literature and the so-called ‘literate’. It is about analysing the workaround strategies implemented by writers to lift the crime novel from the sidelines in which it has long been placed. Born in the nineteenth century with modernity, the African detective fiction is today one of the axes of development of African literature. It compet

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ROLLS, ALISTAIR. "Primates in Paris and Edgar Allan Poe’s Paradoxical Commitment to Foreign Languages." Australian Journal of French Studies 58, no. 1 (2021): 76–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/ajfs.2021.07.

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Drawing on recent innovations in detective criticism in France, this article broadens the quest to exonerate Poe’s famous orang-utan and argues that the Urtext of modern Anglo-American crime fiction is simultaneously a rejection of linguistic dominance (of English in this case) and an apologia for modern languages. This promotion of linguistic diversity goes hand in hand with the wilful non-self-coincidence of Poe’s detection narrative, which recalls, and pre-empts, the who’s-strangling-whom? paradox of deconstructionist criticism. Although “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” is prescient, foundin

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Gye, Joengmeen. "Topography of Black Detective Fiction: Focusing on Himes’ Harlem Cycle." British and American Language and Literature Association of Korea 150 (September 30, 2023): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.21297/ballak.2023.150.1.

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Chester Himes’ Harlem Cycle, the series of black detective fiction comprising nine novels, made him one of the most prominent black detective fiction writers in the U. S. His representation of Harlem in the series, however, has been criticized as a sensational and unreal geography distorted for a popular market. This paper intends to verify the validity of the criticism regarding Himes’s representation of Harlem. Examining the history of residential segregation by race in the U. S. cities and the resulting condition of Black residential areas, this paper proves that his representation of Harle

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Reising, Russell. "Who Wrote the Purloined Letter?" Poe Studies 50, no. 1 (2017): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/poe.2017.a681407.

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ABSTRACT: In “Who Wrote the Purloined Letter?” Russell Reising engages the history of Poe criticism of “The Purloined Letter.” Drawing on leads from such scholars as Daniel Hoffman, leads ignored by later critics, including nearly every essay in the well-known book The Purloined Poe , Reising situates the role of Poe’s amateur detective, C. Auguste Dupin, in the context of other Poe narrators, especially those driven by a thirst for revenge following either a real or an imagined slight. This essay focuses on questions not asked by earlier critics and follows that inquiry to a detailed theory o

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Kolesnyk, Olena. "Historical Detective Story and History as a Detective Story: to the Question of Cross-genre Synthesis." NaUKMA Research Papers. History and Theory of Culture 6 (June 21, 2023): 39–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.18523/2617-8907.2023.6.39-44.

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The article presents an analysis of the popular historical / retro detective genre, considered in terms of semantic fields shared with other literary genres, which for their synthesis. In particular, the motive of the activity of the past in the present and the future, present in almost all literary forms, is of a formative significance in the detective story. The plot is built on a retrospective reconstruction of events leading to a particular situation, typically a crime. This motive is crucial for historical and quasi-historical genres such as alternative history and cryptohistory, in which

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Lázaro, Alberto. "The Popularity of Wilkie Collins’s Sensation Fiction in Spain: The Case of The Woman in White." Complutense Journal of English Studies 30 (December 16, 2022): 81–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/cjes.81787.

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Wilkie Collins, one of the most popular Victorian novelists, has been widely acclaimed as the early master of the sensation novel and a pioneer of English detective fiction. Novels such as The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868) became best sellers and captivated Victorian readers with their convoluted plots full of mystery, crime and sexuality, usually within the respectable middle-class home. His popularity crossed national and linguistic borders, and his novels, novellas and short stories were soon translated into different languages. In Spain, we find over a dozen of different e

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Tobin, Vera. "Ways of reading Sherlock Holmes: the entrenchment of discourse blends." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 15, no. 1 (2006): 73–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947006060556.

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Current work on conceptual integration and literary texts often features detailed analysis of a single reading of a text in terms of the conceptual integration networks involved in constructing that interpretation. However, a single linguistic form can inspire manifold readings. This article takes a historical view of the conceptual blends involved in a range of different literary interpretations generated by different groups of readers of a single set of texts, the Sherlock Holmes detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. First, it examines the case of the numerous and diverse historical reade

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D, Yogalakshmi, and Vijayalakshmi S. "The Gift of Writers in Animating the Past to the Present as Tales of Remembrance: A Comparative Study of Salman Rushdie’s Victory City and Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle Nama." World Journal of English Language 13, no. 7 (2023): 292. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v13n7p292.

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The research focuses on how fantasy is manifested as part of storytelling. Salman Rushdie’s Victory City (2023) and Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle Nama (2021) adopt ancient myths and histories that serve as remembrance tales. Both Rushdie and Ghosh evince a common interest in exploring social issues in their writings through an allegorical form. Rushdie’s Victory City is about the history of the Vijayanagar Empire, one of the most distinguished empires of medieval India (14th century to 16th century). Rushdie submitted his final edits of Victory City before the attack in New York City (Chautauqua) for

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Zabiyako, Anna A., and Wang Yuqi. "The Image of the Perception of the Japanese and Japan in the Pre-Revolutionary Experience of Artistic Reflection: The Genre Aspect." Humanitarian Vector 17, no. 1 (2022): 19–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.21209/1996-7853-2022-17-1-19-28.

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The relevance of the research is determined by the interest of modern literary criticism in the imagological aspects and the problem of developing a research strategy in relation to this kind of texts. The novelty of the work is defined by the genre approach to the study of the image of perception of Japan and the Japanese in Russian pre-revolutionary literature dedicated to the events of the Russian-Japanese war, the introduction of previously unknown texts into scientific circulation, a comparative analysis of narrative strategies that determine the genre specificity of each text. The purpos

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Franks, Rachel. "Building a Professional Profile: Charles Dickens and the Rise of the “Detective Force”." M/C Journal 20, no. 2 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1214.

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IntroductionAccounts of criminals, their victims, and their pursuers have become entrenched within the sphere of popular culture; most obviously in the genres of true crime and crime fiction. The centrality of the pursuer in the form of the detective, within these stories, dates back to the nineteenth century. This, often highly-stylised and regularly humanised protagonist, is now a firm feature of both factual and fictional accounts of crime narratives that, today, regularly focus on the energies of the detective in solving a variety of cases. So familiar is the figure of the detective, it se

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Burke, Eva. "Guilt rules all: Irish mystery, detective, and crime fiction." Irish Studies Review, September 20, 2021, 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2021.1979757.

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Sampe, Marssy Diana. "Holmes' Reformulation Through Elements of Feminist in Enola Holmes." AKSARA: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra 24, no. 1 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.23960/aksara/v24i1.pp220-235.

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As time goes by, fiction has become a medium that satisfies people’s wishes. This phenomenon happens because the purpose of popular fiction is to fulfill people's demands of plot lines. Therefore, the storyline or narrative of the story is a crucial point in discussing popular fiction. Genre becomes the key point in discussing the formulation of a story. This formulation is based on convention and one of the famous formulations is the genre of detective. One of the famous works of detectives is Sherlock Holmes. Holmes has created his own world and has produced so many adaptations. One of the a

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Moulds, Alison. "The Medical Woman as Amateur Detective in Anna Kingsford’s ‘A Cast for a Fortune: The Holiday Adventures of a Lady Doctor.’." Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, July 7, 2021, 83–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.46911/rewz4495.

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Anna Kingsford’s “A Cast for a Fortune: The Holiday Adventures of a Lady Doctor” (1877) depicts a medical woman who becomes entangled in a murder plot whilst on vacation. Assuming the mantle of amateur detective, Dr Mary Thornton intervenes to prevent Dr George Pomeroy poisoning his sister-in-law, a wealthy widow. This little-known short story appeared at a critical time in the medical-woman movement in Britain. In contemporary medical writing and popular culture, the woman doctor was often represented as unfeminine and even as morbid or morally degenerate. Conversely, Kingsford portrays a hea

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Franks, Rachel. "A Taste for Murder: The Curious Case of Crime Fiction." M/C Journal 17, no. 1 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.770.

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Introduction Crime fiction is one of the world’s most popular genres. Indeed, it has been estimated that as many as one in every three new novels, published in English, is classified within the crime fiction category (Knight xi). These new entrants to the market are forced to jostle for space on bookstore and library shelves with reprints of classic crime novels; such works placed in, often fierce, competition against their contemporaries as well as many of their predecessors. Raymond Chandler, in his well-known essay The Simple Art of Murder, noted Ernest Hemingway’s observation that “the goo

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Tulante, Meriel. "Detecting falsehoods: History and mafia in the work of Leonardo Sciascia and Sebastiano Vassalli." Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies, May 15, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00145858241252028.

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This article explores points of contact in the work of Leonardo Sciascia (1921–1989) and Sebastiano Vassalli (1941–2015) through historical novels with Sciascia's La strega e il capitano (1986) and Vassalli's La chimera (1990) as well as in their accounts of the mafia in Sciascia's Il giorno della civetta (1972) and Vassalli's Il cigno (1993). Deleuze's conception of falsehood as an essential structural element of crime fiction serves as a mechanism to highlight both authors’ intolerance of false histories and the deliberate obfuscation of the collusion between mafia and the State in Sicily an

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McConville, Chris. "The private eye as urbane." M/C Journal 5, no. 2 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1949.

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I knew all about places like the Hotel Tremaineâ€¦they are flops where you find the cheap ones, the sniffers and the gowed-up runts who shoot you before you can say hello Raymond Chandler, Mandarin's Jade. It is in such a city, of the derelict and the displaced, that film-goers once encountered the private eye. And while we recognise the private eye as naturally urban, the 'hard-boiled' guys of Chandler, David Goodis and their imitators rarely appeal as urbane. Dictionary advice offers a neatly-plotted resolution to such a puzzle, informing us that 'urbane' is dependent on 'urban' in the manne

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Shiloh, Ilana. "A Vision of Complex Symmetry." M/C Journal 10, no. 3 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2674.

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   The labyrinth is probably the most universal trope of complexity. Deriving from pre-Greek labyrinthos, a word denoting “maze, large building with intricate underground passages”, and possibly related to Lydian labrys, which signifies “double-edged axe,” symbol of royal power, the notion of the labyrinth primarily evokes the Minoan Palace in Crete and the myth of the Minotaur. According to this myth, the Minotaur, a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull, was born to Pesiphae, king Minos’s wife, who mated with a bull when the king of Crete was besieging Athen

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Shaw, Janice Marion. "The Curious Transformation of Boy to Computer." M/C Journal 19, no. 4 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1130.

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Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has achieved success as “the new Rain Man” or “the new definitive, popular account of the autistic condition” (Burks-Abbott 294). Integral to its favourable reception is the way it conflates the autistic main character, the fifteen-year-old narrator Christopher Boone, with the savant, or individual who exhibits both neurological problems and giftedness, thereby engaging with the way autism is presented in popular culture. In a variety of contemporary films and television series, autism has been transformed from a disability to a f

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Rolls, Alistair. "The Re-imagining Inherent in Crime Fiction Translation." M/C Journal 18, no. 6 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1028.

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Introduction When a text is said to be re-appropriated, it is at times unclear to what extent this appropriation is secondary, repeated, new; certainly, the difference between a reiteration and an iteration has more to do with emphasis than any (re)duplication. And at a moment in the development of crime fiction in France when the retranslation of now apparently dated French translations of the works of classic American hardboiled novels (especially those of authors like Dashiell Hammett, whose novels were published in Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire at Gallimard in the decades following the end

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Gildersleeve, Jessica. "“Weird Melancholy” and the Modern Television Outback: Rage, Shame, and Violence in Wake in Fright and Mystery Road." M/C Journal 22, no. 1 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1500.

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In the middle of the nineteenth century, Marcus Clarke famously described the Australian outback as displaying a “Weird Melancholy” (qtd. in Gelder 116). The strange sights, sounds, and experiences of Australia’s rural locations made them ripe for the development of the European genre of the Gothic in a new location, a mutation which has continued over the past two centuries. But what does it mean for Australia’s Gothic landscapes to be associated with the affective qualities of the melancholy? And more particularly, how and why does this Gothic effect (and affect) appear in the most accessibl

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Brammer, Rebekah. "Dark Laughs." M/C Journal 28, no. 1 (2025). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3152.

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Introduction: From Classic Noir Parody to Aussie Comedy Noir However you choose to identify noir – as a genre, style, or cycle – over its 80 years from classic American film noir to neo-noir, neon-noir, national noirs, and television noir, it has undeniably seeped into popular culture. Exemplary of this is the way noir has hybridised with other genres and styles, true of comedy as much as its more serious pairings with science fiction, Western, and Gothic. This is not a new phenomenon: Sue Short points out that pastiche noir began appearing at the end of the classic cycle, citing Kiss Me Deadl

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Jaakkola, Maarit. "Forms of culture (Culture Coverage)." DOCA - Database of Variables for Content Analysis, March 26, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.34778/2x.

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This variable describes what kind of concept of culture underlies the cultural coverage at a certain point of time or across time. The variable dissects the concept of culture into cultural forms that are being journalistically covered. It presupposes that each article predominantly focuses on one cultural genre or discipline, such as literature, music, or film, which is the case in most articles in the cultural beat that are written according to cultural journalists’ areas of specialization. By identifying the cultural forms covered, the variable delivers an answer to the question of what kin

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Rutherford, Leonie Margaret. "Re-imagining the Literary Brand." M/C Journal 18, no. 6 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1037.

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IntroductionThis paper argues that the industrial contexts of re-imagining, or transforming, literary icons deploy the promotional strategies that are associated with what are usually seen as lesser, or purely commercial, genres. Promotional paratexts (Genette Paratexts; Gray; Hills) reveal transformations of content that position audiences to receive them as creative innovations, superior in many senses to their literary precursors due to the distinctive expertise of creative professionals. This interpretation leverages Matt Hills’ argument that certain kinds of “quality” screened drama are d

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Marshall, P. David. "Seriality and Persona." M/C Journal 17, no. 3 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.802.

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No man [...] can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one may be true. (Nathaniel Hawthorne Scarlet Letter – as seen and pondered by Tony Soprano at Bowdoin College, The Sopranos, Season 1, Episode 5: “College”)The fictitious is a particular and varied source of insight into the everyday world. The idea of seriality—with its variations of the serial, series, seriated—is very much connected to our patterns of entertainment. In this essay, I want to begin the process of testing what values and meanings can be drawn from the idea of

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Joseph, Kaela. "Gays Burying Ourselves." M/C Journal 28, no. 1 (2025). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3140.

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Introduction Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow (ISTTVG) is a psychological science fiction/horror film which draws upon audiences’ associations between serialised television and queer identity development to ask a terrifying question: would you bury yourself alive to solve the mystery of a parallel life not yet lived? The film is an allegory for queer experiences of internalised heteronormativity and concealment in which the villain is not the typical monster of the week, but our own selves, suffocating under the mundanity of surroundings we have yet to break free from. Neon noir elements ar

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Hackett, Lisa J., and Jo Coghlan. "Conjuring Up a King." M/C Journal 26, no. 5 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2986.

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Introduction The coronation of King Charles III was steeped in the tradition of magic and ritual that has characterised English, and later British, coronations. The very idea of a coronation leverages belief in divinity; however, the coronation of Charles III occurred in a very different social environment than those of monarchs a millennium ago. Today, belief in the divine right of Kings is dramatically reduced. In this context, magic can also be thought of as a stage performance that relies on a tacit understanding between audience and actor, where disbelief is suspended in order to achieve

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Sheu, Chingshun J. "Forced Excursion: Walking as Disability in Joshua Ferris’s The Unnamed." M/C Journal 21, no. 4 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1403.

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Introduction: Conceptualizing DisabilityThe two most prominent models for understanding disability are the medical model and the social model (“Disability”). The medical model locates disability in the person and emphasises the possibility of a cure, reinforcing the idea that disability is the fault of the disabled person, their body, their genes, and/or their upbringing. The social model, formulated as a response to the medical model, presents disability as a failure of the surrounding environment to accommodate differently abled bodies and minds. Closely linked to identity politics, the soci

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Hanscombe, Elisabeth. "A Plea for Doubt in the Subjectivity of Method." M/C Journal 14, no. 1 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.335.

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Photograph by Gonzalo Echeverria (2010)Doubt has been my closest companion for several years as I struggle to make sense of certain hidden events from within my family’s history. The actual nature of such events, although now lost to us, can nevertheless be explored through the distorting lens of memory and academic research. I base such explorations in part on my intuition and sensitivity to emotional experience, which are inevitably riddled with doubt. I write from the position of a psychoanalytic psychologist who is also a creative writer and my doubts increase further when I use the autobi

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Burns, Alex. "'This Machine Is Obsolete'." M/C Journal 2, no. 8 (1999). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1805.

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'He did what the cipher could not, he rescued himself.' -- Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (23) On many levels, the new Nine Inch Nails album The Fragile is a gritty meditation about different types of End: the eternal relationship cycle of 'fragility, tension, ordeal, fragmentation' (adapted, with apologies to Wilhelm Reich); fin-de-siècle anxiety; post-millennium foreboding; a spectre of the alien discontinuity that heralds an on-rushing future vastly different from the one envisaged by Enlightenment Project architects. In retrospect, it's easy for this perspective to be dismissed as

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Watson, Robert. "E-Press and Oppress." M/C Journal 8, no. 2 (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2345.

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   From elephants to ABBA fans, silicon to hormone, the following discussion uses a new research method to look at printed text, motion pictures and a teenage rebel icon. If by ‘print’ we mean a mechanically reproduced impression of a cultural symbol in a medium, then printing has been with us since before microdot security prints were painted onto cars, before voice prints, laser prints, network servers, record pressings, motion picture prints, photo prints, colour woodblock prints, before books, textile prints, and footprints. If we accept that higher mammals such as elepha

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Hutcheon, Linda. "In Defence of Literary Adaptation as Cultural Production." M/C Journal 10, no. 2 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2620.

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   Biology teaches us that organisms adapt—or don’t; sociology claims that people adapt—or don’t. We know that ideas can adapt; sometimes even institutions can adapt. Or not. Various papers in this issue attest in exciting ways to precisely such adaptations and maladaptations. (See, for example, the articles in this issue by Lelia Green, Leesa Bonniface, and Tami McMahon, by Lexey A. Bartlett, and by Debra Ferreday.) Adaptation is a part of nature and culture, but it’s the latter alone that interests me here. (However, see the article by Hutcheon and Bortolotti for a discussi

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