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Naidu, Sam. "Crimes against nature : ecocritical discourse in South African crime fiction." UNISA Press Journals - NISC, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53754.

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Heeding Patrick Murphy's call to critics, in his book, Ecocritical explorations in literary and cultural studies: fences, boundaries and field, to study “nature-oriented mystery novels … in order to understand the degree to which environmental consciousness and nature awareness has permeated popular and commercial fiction” (2009: 143), this article examines how highly successful author, Deon Meyer, has employed crime fiction to popularize ecological issues and debates in South Africa. In this article, Meyer's first “nature-oriented” novel, the crime thriller, Blood safari (2009), is analysed.
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Jones, Margaret Anne. "The Blackshaw Chord ; Crime fiction, literary fiction : why the demarcation?" Thesis, University of Southampton, 2013. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/366620/.

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My thesis is in two parts: Part 1 a novel, Part 2 a critical rationale. The novel examines abuse in a range of manifestations – parental power; alcohol; the press; corporate power – all of which combine to perpetrate a catalogue of abuse against my protagonist. But it is the completely innocent protagonist who is perceived as the abuser. The novel quite deliberately has the feel of a crime story although the only serious crime is off-the-page and not connected with any of the characters or locations. This is intentional. The critical rationale seeks to investigate the classification of crime f
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Wallis-Martin, Julia Wallis-Martin Julia. "Crime fiction and the publishing market /." St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/710.

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Wallis-Martin, Julia. "Crime fiction and the publishing market." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/710.

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The thesis is mainly a substantial part of a crime novel, the title of which is 6, Vermillion Crescent. In that novel, a girl of 14 is murdered by her foster brother. On his release from prison, the former foster child goes in search of his victim’s mother with the intention of murdering her for betraying and abandoning him. The idea for the novel was sparked by events that occurred over 18 years ago, and coincided with the publication of my first novel. There have been a number of changes within the publishing industry since then, and in the critical piece accompanying the novel extract, I ex
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Alvarez, Heidi Lee. "Regional aspects of Miami crime fiction." FIU Digital Commons, 1999. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1263.

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This thesis argues that forces of literary regionalism and postmodern culture are behind the explosion of crime fiction being written in and about South Florida by a growing number of resident authors. Research included four methods of investigation: 1. A critical reading of many of the novels that make up the sub-genre. 2. A study of the theories of regionalism, postmodernism and the genre of the crime fiction. 3. Interviews with a number of the authors and a prominent Miami book seller. 4. Sociological studies of Miami in terms of historical events and their cultural significance. Today's So
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Farrelly, Tanya. "The evolution of Irish crime fiction." Thesis, Bangor University, 2012. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-evolution-of-irish-crime-fiction(8cc89aac-42d9-4b6b-9517-1a45e5f586e1).html.

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The following PhD consists of two parts: a thesis exploring the evolution of Irish crime fiction, and an original crime novel. Dark Room is a crime fiction novel set in contemporary Dublin-during a harsh winter. It centres around two main protagonists: J oanna Lacey, a twenty-six year old photography student, and Oliver Molloy, a fOIty-twO year old solicitor. Oliver Molloy, plagued by nightmares following the accidental killing of Mercedes, his young Spanish wife, is out walking by the canal at dawn when he discovers the body of well-known Sports journalist, Vince Amold, trapped beneath the ic
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Naidu, Sam. "Crime travel: a survey of representations of transnational crime in South African crime fiction." Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, 2016. http://jcpcsonline.com/.

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The literatures, the histories, the politics, and the arts whose focus, locales, or subjects involve Britain and other European countries and their former colonies, the now decolonized, independent nations in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, and also Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand.
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Riwoe, Mirandi. "Fragrance of night and the hybridisation of Indonesian crime fiction." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/60982/1/Miranoi_Riwoe_Thesis.pdf.

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The novel manuscript Fragrance of Night is a crime novel set in Indonesia. Raymond Chan, struggling to deal with the death of his Australian wife, returns to his country of birth, Indonesia. Ostensibly he returns to attend his cousin Lee’s wedding but he is also in search of some meaning in his life. He is drawn into a local murder mystery, and with the help of a young, Javanese policeman, he is soon investigating suspects and motives. Raymond finds himself becoming increasingly enamoured with the main suspect, Lani, but ultimately, once the murder mystery is solved, Raymond loses her. The
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Cartwright, Robert Oliver. "Third crime unlucky." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015729.

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This is a contemporary mystery novel set in the Eastern Cape. A town’s airstrip, situated between the golf club and the military base, acts as host to the local flying club and an active skydiving school. An amateur investigator uses unorthodox methods and the help of friends to find the cause of aeroplane fires and sabotage. His investigations lead him via geological research and insurance reports into contact with members of the aviation, property development and military fields.
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Stoecklein, Mary, and Mary Stoecklein. "Native American Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624574.

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Native American Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction examines a range of texts, most of them Native-authored, that utilize elements of a popular and accessible literary genre: the mystery, crime, and detective story. The examined texts convey how writers fuse tribally-specific cultural elements with characteristics of mystery, crime, and detective fiction as a way to, as I argue, inform all readers about Native American histories, cultures, and contemporary issues. Exploring how Native American writers approach the genre of mystery, crime, and detective fiction is critical, since it is a sub-
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Naidu, Sam. "Crime fiction, South Africa : a critical introduction." Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53743.

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Crime fiction is an emergent category in South African literary studies. This introduction positions South African crime fiction and its scholarship in a global lineage of crime and detective fiction. The survey addresses the question of its literary status as ‘highbrow’ or ‘lowbrow’. It also identifies and describes two distinct sub-genres of South African crime fiction: the crime thriller novel; and the literary detective novel. The argument is that South African crime fiction exhibits a unique capacity for social analysis: a capacity which is being optimised by authors and interrogated by s
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Naicker, Kamil. "Return to the scene of the crime: The returnee detective and postcolonial crime fiction." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25397.

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This thesis investigates the ways in which the crime novel genre has been taken up and adapted in order to depict and grapple with ideas of justice in selected postcolonial contexts. It approaches this investigation through the figure of the 'returnee detective' in these texts and determines how this recurring figure is used to mediate the reader's understanding of civil conflict in the postcolonial world. What makes this trope so noteworthy, and merits investigation, is the way in which guilt and innocence (and their attendant associations of self and other) are forced into realignment by the
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Mukherjee, Upamanyu Pablo. "Writing crime, writing empire : representing the colony in nineteenth-century fiction of crime." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621295.

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Clarke, C. "Shadows of Sherlock : British crime fiction, 1880-1900." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546031.

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Naidu, Sam. "Fears and desires in South African crime fiction." Routledge, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53765.

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This article is a review of a burgeoning literary genre, South African crime fiction, as much as it is a review of specific texts. First, for the purposes of contextualisation and historicisation, an overview of the primary literature is provided. Then criticism and theories of extant crime fiction in mainly the UK and USA, of which South African crime fiction is a descendent, are outlined. This outline is followed by descriptions of two sub-genres (the crime thriller novel and the literary detective novel). Two exemplar texts, Devil’s Peak (2007) and Lost Ground (2011) are then reviewed. The
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Sinha, Mandika. "Literature of crisis: reading recent scandinavian crime fiction." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2019. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4029.

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Wanner, Lennart. "What is Tartan Noir? : investigating Scotland's dark contemporary crime fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/18740.

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Contrary to popular belief, Tartan Noir is not a synonym for Scottish noir but a mystifying marketing label for a national literature: dark, contemporary Scottish crime fiction. As it comprises an immense diversity of writing done in such mainstream sub-genres as detective, police, and serial killer fiction, as well as actual noir, I will investigate both the contrasts and the crossovers between said sub-genres. I will show that only few of the writers who are most associated with Tartan Noir write much, or any, noir, whereas most of those who do are not commonly associated with the term. With
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Shead, Jackie. "Margaret Atwood’s transformative use of the crime fiction genre." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.573748.

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This thesis examines Atwood's transformation of the crime genre, more particularly the whodunit and the spy thriller, in some of her longer fiction. Her protagonists are considered as detective figures needing to decipher experiences made mysterious to them by acceptance of hegemonic scripts. Discussion explores their discoveries that they are not only victims of the crime fabulae they unravel, but accessories, their complicity arising from an acculturation to ideologies of power, particularly those of patriarchy, class and colonialism. A gendered inflection of the crime narrative is also evid
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Kemp, Simon Robert. "Crime-fiction pastiche in late-twentieth-century French literature." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619787.

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Gregoriou, Christiana. "The poetics of deviance in contemporary American crime fiction." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11826/.

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The study directly explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary American crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. I conduct case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell and investigate the way in which the novelists correspondingly challenge linguistic norms, the boundaries of acceptable social behaviour, and the relevant generic conventions. The study particularly explores the nature of the figurative language employed to portray the criminal mind in Patterson, and additionally examines the moral justification of crim
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Rinaldi, Lucia. "Postmodernity, identity and representation in contemporary Italian crime fiction." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442052.

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Merrell, Chad. "Be Gay, Do Crime: Stories." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1616607644034077.

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Massey, Susan. "The uncocked gun? : representations of masculinity in contemporary crime fiction." Thesis, St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/898.

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Belas, Oliver Sandys. "Race and culture in African American crime and science fiction." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.499831.

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Phelps, Catherine Margaret. "[Dis]solving genres : arguing the case for Welsh crime fiction." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2013. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/60053/.

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Walter Benjamin’s suggestion that great literary works not only add to canonical literature but also ‘dissolve’ genres may not seem apt in an examination of crime fiction, a genre noted for its rigidity and structured form. Though much of this mass-marketed, populist fiction cannot be perceived as great literature, nonetheless, some do work to dissolve genres, to re-shape them to different ends. This is especially true of Welsh crime fiction written in English. This thesis posits that there is a wealth of undiscovered Welsh crime fiction written in English and that those neglected works are ne
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Cole, Cathy. "Private dicks and feisty chicks : an interrogation of crime fiction /." Fremantle (Australia) : Curtin university books, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb399906011.

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Paquet, Lili. "Professional Eyes: Feminist Crime Fiction by Former Criminal Justice Professionals." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14482.

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This dissertation studies novels written by and about professional women investigators, or “professional eyes,” who have worked in occupations involving police investigation and criminal trials. It poses the questions: How has the inclusion of novels by professional eyes changed the direction of feminist crime fiction? Is there a difference between the novels of crime fiction authors with professional experience to those without? How does it reflect real feminist gains in the criminal justice system? Dorothy Uhnak was the first of these authors to emerge with her autobiography and fictional
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Mathews, Lisa Gay. "Crime and subversion in the later fiction of Wilkie Collins." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1993. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/695/.

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Although some good work on Collins is now beginning to emerge, complex and central elements in his fiction require fuller exploration. More consideration is due to the development of Collins's thinking and fictional techniques in the lesser-known novels, since out of a total of thirty-four published works most have received scant attention from scholars. This is particularly true of the later fiction. It is to work of the later period (1870-1889) that I devote the fullest consideration, whilst giving due attention to the novels of the 1860s which are usually regarded as Collins's major novels.
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Shaw, Charles Douglas. "Standup guys : James Ellroy, George V. Higgins, Elmore Leonard." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322939.

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My thesis, by offering an analysis of their individual stylistic approaches, considers how Ellroy, Higgins and Leonard expand the parameters of the crime fiction genre. The genre is still essentially conservative, a mediating detective/police hero synthesising narrative strands to indicate cause and effect, problem and resolution, thereby affirming the notion of a dominant grand narrative in society, of the status quo. I examine how Ellroy, Higgins and Leonard offer a critical perspective that subverts the artificial constraints of this concept by privileging the dialogic interaction of the mu
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Trotman, Tiffany Gagliardi, and n/a. "Eduardo Mendoza�s Ceferino series : spanish crime fiction and the carnivalesque." University of Otago. Department of Languages and Cultures, 2007. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070613.114325.

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In the wake of Francisco Franco�s long dictatorship, various new forms of literature emerged in Spain. A new period of transformation, the so-called Spanish Transition, fostered an environment of experimentation and innovation free from the restrictive barriers of Franco�s regime. The Transition proved a period of great hopes and expectations as well as disillusionment and disappointment. This time, above all, provided an opportunity to reflect critically on the history and experience of the nation in the 20th century. Eduardo Mendoza is one among a generation of writers that experienced the
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Waters, Diane Lesley. "The greening of noir : an ecocritical reading of Florida crime fiction." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394039.

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Kydd, Christopher. "A mongrel tradition : contemporary Scottish crime fiction and its transatlantic contexts." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2013. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/965af68c-99ba-4b38-a20b-a23e052646cf.

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This thesis discusses contemporary Scottish crime fiction in light of its transatlantic contexts. It argues that, despite participating in a globalized popular genre, examples of Scottish crime fiction nevertheless meaningfully intervene in notions of Scottishness. The first chapter examines Scottish appropriations of the hard-boiled mode in the work of William McIlvanney, Ian Rankin, and Irvine Welsh, using their representation of traditional masculinity as an index for wider concerns about community, class, and violence. The second chapter examines examples of Scottish crime fiction that exp
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Diego, Rivera Hernandez Raul. ""Symbolic and Global Violence in Contemporary Mexican and Spanish Crime Fiction"." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338381722.

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Fletcher, Elizabeth. "South African crime fiction and the narration of the post-apartheid." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4287.

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Magister Artium - MA<br>In this dissertation, I consider how South African crime fiction, which draws on a long international literary history, engages with the conventions and boundaries of the genre, and how it has adapted to the specific geographical, social, political and historical settings of South Africa. A key aspect of this research is the work’s temporal setting. I will focus on local crime fiction which is set in contemporary South Africa as this enables me to engage with current perceptions of South Africa, depicted by contemporary local writers. My concern is to explore how contem
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Martella, Gianna María. "Spanish American detective and crime fiction : the question of the other /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Mangham, Andrew. "Violent women and sensation fiction : crime, medicine and Victorian popular culture /." Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41142635d.

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Naidu, Sam. "South African crime fiction: sleuthing the State post-1994, African Identities." African Identities, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53912.

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In this essay we demonstrate how the burgeoning field of South African crime fiction has responded to the birth and development of a democratic, post-apartheid South African state. First, an overview of South African crime fiction in the last 20 years is presented. Then the essay presents an argument for South African crime fiction to be regarded as the ‘new political novel’, based on its capacity for socio-political analysis. We use Deon Meyer, arguably South Africa’s most popular and successful crime fiction author, as an exemplar for our argument. In the following section, the genresnob deb
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Davies, Jasmine Yvette. "The candidate : a novella and examination of Australian Gothic crime fiction." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/37294/1/Jasmine_Davies_Thesis.pdf.

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Australia is a land without haunted castles or subterranean corridors, without ancient graveyards or decaying monasteries, a land whose climate is rarely gloomy. Yet, the literary landscape is splattered with shades of the Gothic genre. This Gothic heritage is especially evident within elements of nineteenth century Australian sensation fiction. Australian crime fiction in the twentieth century, in keeping with this lineage, repeatedly employs elements of the Gothic, adapting and appropriating these conventions for literary effect. I believe that a ‘mélange’ of historical Gothic crime traditio
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Atkin, Shane. "The architecture of potential : re-evaluations of classic detective fiction." Thesis, University of Kent, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322157.

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Riwoe, Mirandi J. "A nemesis in crinoline: The Eurasian courtesan as sleuth." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101160/6/Mirandi_Riwoe_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis contextualises and extends representations of the nineteenth-century fictional female detective, by way of creative practice and critical analysis. The practice led research incorporates textual analysis and reflective practice in order to triangulate neo-Victorian studies, crime fiction and the figure of Eurasian courtesan. The research findings not only disrupt depictions of the 'sinister Oriental', but also reveal that it was possible for certain working class women, sex-workers included, to have the necessary agency to detect in the Victorian period. In re-imagining the ninetee
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Fremiot, Anne. "Barbey d'Aurevilly : identite et difference dans la fiction du dandy." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243661.

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Doyle, Darrin Michael. "The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1155575561.

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Mäntymäki, Tiina. "Hard & soft : the male detective's body in contemporary European crime fiction /." Linköping : Dept. of Language and Culture, Univ, 2004. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2004/slc4s.pdf.

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Stewart, Faye. "Queer investigations genre, geography, and sexuality in German-language lesbian crime fiction /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3290757.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Germanic Studies, 2007.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4721. Adviser: Claudia Breger. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 22, 2008).
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Walton, Samantha. "Guilty but insane : psychology, law and selfhood in golden age crime fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7793.

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Writers of golden age crime fiction (1920 to 1945), and in particular female writers, have been seen by many critics as socially and politically detached. Their texts have been read as morality tales, theoretically rich mise en scenès, or psychic fantasies, by necessity emerging from an historical epoch with unique cultural and social concerns, but only obliquely engaging with these concerns by toying with unstable identities, or through playful, but doomed, private transgressions. The thesis overturns assumptions about the crime novel as a negation of the present moment, detached and escapist
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Brooks, Darren. "'Rankin's Scotland' : contemporary Scottish crime fiction and a narration of modern Scotland." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654719.

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Ian Rankin is one of the world's best-selling authors of crime fiction. His series of Inspector Rebus novels, set in contemporary Edinburgh, have been translated into thirty-six languages and have achieved wide critical and commercial success. Yet for all its global reach, the Rebus series collectively asserts a more nuanced story: that of modern Scotland. The first novel, Knots & Crosses, was published in 1987, in the years after the failed devolution referendum of 1979 and in a decade of industrial tumult. In 2007, as 01 John Rebus was compelled to retire from Lothian and Borders Police in E
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Hoffman, Megan. "Women writing women : gender and representation in British 'Golden Age' crime fiction." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11910.

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In this thesis, I examine representations of women and gender in British ‘Golden Age' crime fiction by writers including Margery Allingham, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey and Patricia Wentworth. I argue that portrayals of women in these narratives are ambivalent, both advocating a modern, active model of femininity, while also displaying with their resolutions an emphasis on domesticity and on maintaining a heteronormative order, and that this ambivalence provides a means to deal with anxieties about women's place in society. This thesis is di
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Bretherick, Diana. "The Devil's Daughters : criminology and the female offender in historical crime fiction." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2017. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/415840/.

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This PhD thesis consists of two sections, each supported by a bibliography. The critical commentary reflects on the research and writing process I embarked upon for my doctoral novel and how I drew upon criminological theory and research to inform it. Also examined is how contemporary writers of crime fiction might best use the resources offered by criminological research. I chose to write a historical rather than contemporary novel about criminology to explore the influence that historical ideas about crime might have on the way we perceive it today; to examine, challenge and critique dominan
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Jaber, Maysaa Husam. "Sirens in command: the criminal femme fatale in American hardboiled crime fiction." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/sirens-in-command-the-criminal-femme-fatale-in-american-hardboiled-crime-fiction(a6a35b81-665e-4f1a-9f3c-a8c286fe3796).html.

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This thesis challenges the traditional view of the 'femme fatale' as merely a dangerous and ravenous sexual predator who leads men into ruination. Critical, especially feminist, scholarship mostly regards the femme fatale as a sexist construction of a male fantasy and treats her as an expression of misogyny that ultimately serves to reaffirm male authority. But this thesis proposes alternative ways of viewing the femme fatale by showing how she can also serve as a figure for imagining female agency. As such, I focus on a particular character type that is distinct from the general archetype of
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Naidu, Sam. "A survey of South African crime fiction : critical analysis and publishing history." University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53878.

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Is crime fiction the new 'political novel' in South Africa? Why did the apartheid censors disapprove of crime fiction more than any other genre? Crime fiction continues to be a burgeoning literary category in post-apartheid South Africa, with more new authors, titles and themes emerging every year. This book is the first comprehensive survey of South African crime fiction. It provides an overview of this phenomenally successful literary category, and places it within its wider social and historical context. The authors specialise in both literary studies and print culture, and this combination
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