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Journal articles on the topic "Mystery/detective fiction"

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Gerhard, Kristin H. "Mystery and Detective Fiction:." Public Library Quarterly 10, no. 4 (1991): 49–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j118v10n04_05.

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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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Davis, Christine S., and Jan Warren-Findlow. "The Mystery of the Troubled Breast." Qualitative Communication Research 1, no. 3 (2012): 291–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/qcr.2012.1.3.291.

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This autoethnographic narrative uses fictional female heroine Nancy Drew and her friends to perform coauthor Jan's experience of breast cancer. Friends and colleagues Jan and Cris try out alternative characterizations of Nancy Drew as a mechanism for Jan to push back against the social construction of breast cancer victim/survivor. We use performative fiction to be creative and have fun with the experience while providing social support and deepening our relationship. In the end, Jan performs self-with-breast-cancer as an academic feminist, and Nancy Drew performs breast cancer as a fictional
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Rubio Gijón, Pablo. "“El caso Berciani” de Alan Pauls: un viaje a los bajos fondos." Acta Hispanica 21 (January 1, 2016): 131–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/actahisp.2016.21.131-141.

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“El caso Berciani” (1992) relates to the genre of detective and mystery fiction by parody and distortion. Alan Pauls (Buenos Aires, 1959) explores the relation between order and abjection. In so doing, “El caso Berciani” becomes a thorough reflection on the failure of modernization. This article explores how this short story uses detective fiction to elaborate on knowledge and interpretation, and urban dystopias and social tensions.
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Pigalev, Sergey. "Mystery fiction in culture: evolution of genre and crisis of cultural paradigm of modernity." Философия и культура, no. 5 (May 2020): 21–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0757.2020.5.33073.

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The subject of this research is the phenomenon of mystery fiction and its evolution in the context of development of sociocultural project of modernity. The latter is viewed as a complex system, which fundamental principles permeate the entire fabrics of European culture, generating such phenomenon as a mystery fiction plot. The analysis of its varieties deepens the understanding of specificity of modernity and mature of crises that has captured it. Hermeneutic analysis allows going beyond the frames of the narrow-disciplinary analysis of the corresponding texts, allowing to determine the inev
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Bubíková, Šárka. "Ethnicity and Social Critique in Tony Hilleman’s Crime Fiction." Prague Journal of English Studies 5, no. 1 (2016): 141–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pjes-2016-0008.

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Abstract American mystery writer Tony Hillerman (1925-2008) achieved wide readership both within the United States and abroad, and, significantly, within the US both among white Americans and Native Americans. This article discusses Hillerman’s detective fiction firstly within the tradition of the genre and then focuses on particular themes and literary means the writer employs in order to disseminate knowledge about the Southwestern nations (tribes) among his readers using the framework of mystery (crime) fiction. Hillerman’s two literary detectives Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Ch
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BOYER, STEVEN D. "The logic of mystery." Religious Studies 43, no. 1 (2007): 89–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003441250600878x.

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This paper proposes an analytical taxonomy of ‘mystery’ based upon what makes a mystery mysterious. I begin by distinguishing mysteries that depend on what we do not know (e.g. detective fiction) from mysteries that depend on what we do know (e.g. religious mysteries). Then I distinguish three possible grounds for the latter type. The third and most provocative ground offers a mathematical analogy for how rational reflection can be appropriate to mystery without compromising its intrinsically mysterious character. I conclude with reflections on the metaphysical presuppositions that this unders
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Moiseev, P. A. "Boltanski, L. (2019). Mysteries and conspiracies. Translated by A. Zakharevich. St. Petersburg: Izdatelstvo Evropeyskogo universiteta. (In Russ.)." Voprosy literatury, no. 2 (June 17, 2021): 264–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2021-2-264-269.

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The review deals with Luc Boltanski's Mysteries and Conspiracies [Enigmes et complots]. The following is noted as defects of the reviewed book: detective fiction is associated with anxieties that question the framework of modern reality. Such attribution, it is argued, results from inaccurate comparison of detective fiction to a spy novel. The reviewer identifies contradictions in the definition of detective fiction: on the one hand, it is characterised by the proverbial anxiety. On the other, the writer suggests that unravelling a mystery normalises the ‘integrity of predictable expectations.
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John, Jerrin Aleyamma. "Serial Killing as a Defence Mechanism: A Study of Thomas Harris’s “The Silence of the Lambs”." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 7, no. 11 (2019): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v7i11.10123.

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The literary canon carries with it a huge array of possible writings exploring the various contours of fiction, the genre of Detective fiction is one such umbrella term. The effect of mystery and suspense and the surprise factors being hidden away in the pages, keeps the readers glued to detective fiction. This paper explores the plot line of one of the prominent detective stories, Thomas Harris’s ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ in search of certain existential questions regarding the named serial killer in the plot. The social evil of killing the lives of many for the purely pleasure aspect is vie
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Mystery/detective fiction"

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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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Donnelly, Keith. "Three Daggers Dripping: A Donald Youngblood Mystery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. http://amzn.com/0895876647.

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"Eight years ago, Sheila Buckworth's ten-year-old son, Michael, disappeared with another young boy. The authorities classified them as runaways--no ransom note, no reason to believe they were abducted. Now, Sheila thinks she knows what happened to Michael and wants Donald Youngblood to prove it. The case soon intersects with an FBI terrorist investigation when Youngblood and sheriff's deputy Bill Two-Feathers find themselves in the desert of southwest Arizona on the Tohono O'Odham Indian Reservation uncovering a sinister plot to inflict damage on the U.S. government. Racing against time to dis
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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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Pendrill, Michael Laurie. "A guilty satisfaction : detective fiction and the reader." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/40838/.

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The purpose of this thesis is to explore the reasons why readers choose to read detective fiction. Taking Thomas De Quincey's satirical identification of the aesthetic quality of murder, I look at Edgar Allan Poe's detective fiction to find a non-satiric version of the same argument that emphasises the balancing quality of the ethical to the aesthetic. W.H. Auden's essay “The Guilty Vicarage” offers an argument concerning the reader's position in relation to these opposite components. I explore the ways in which Auden's arguments build into Freud's understanding of guilt, daydreams, the moral
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Nuñez, Gabriela. "Investigating La Frontera : transnational space in contemporary Chicana/o and Mexican detective fiction /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3286241.

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Dzirkalis, Anna M. "Investigating the female detective : gender paradoxes in popular British mystery fiction, 1864-1930 /." View abstract, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3287860.

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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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Yuan, Honggeng. "From conventional to experimental : the making of Chinese metaphysical detective fiction /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21556398.

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Chino, Noriko. "Miyabe Miyuki's place in the development of Japanese mystery fiction." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1230340838.

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Smillie, Rachel Jane. "The lady vanishes : women writers and the development of detective fiction." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=225765.

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The history of detective fiction has frequently centred on three key figures: Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle. These writers hold a privileged place in the canon of detective fiction and represent key sites in a linear narrative of development which has often overlooked the complexity and variability of the detective genre. This dissertation explores the disappearance of female writers from the critical history of detective fiction. Focusing on the mystery and detective narratives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, LT Meade, Baroness Emmuska Orczy and CL Pirkis, this project aim
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Books on the topic "Mystery/detective fiction"

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John, Cooper. Detective fiction: The collector's guide. Barn Owl, 1988.

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A, Pike B., ed. Detective fiction: The collector's guide. Barn Owl, 1988.

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John, Cooper. Detective fiction: The collector's guide. 2nd ed. Scolar Press, 1994.

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Bleiler, Richard. Reference guide to mystery and detective fiction. Libraries Unlimited, 1999.

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McCaw, Neil. Adapting detective fiction: Crime, Englishness and the TV detectives. Continuum, 2011.

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McCaw, Neil. Adapting detective fiction: Crime, Englishness and the TV detectives. Continuum, 2011.

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D, James P. Talking about detective fiction. Vintage Books, 2011.

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British Association for American Studies., ed. Hard-boiled detective fiction. British Association for American Studies, 1992.

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Crime and detective fiction. Salem Press, Grey House Publishing, 2013.

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James, P. D. Talking about detective fiction. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

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Book chapters on the topic "Mystery/detective fiction"

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Trensky, Paul I. "Detective and Mystery Stories." In The Fiction of Josef Škvorecký. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21531-7_11.

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Routledge, Christopher. "Children’s Detective Fiction and the ‘Perfect Crime’ of Adulthood." In Mystery in Children's Literature. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780333985137_5.

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Dechêne, Antoine. "From the Metaphysical Detective Story to the Metacognitive Mystery Tale." In Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94469-2_2.

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Cook, Michael. "The Locked Compartment: Charles Dickens’s ‘The Signalman’ and Enclosure in the Railway Mystery Story." In Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230313736_2.

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Frank, Lawrence. "News from the Dead: Archaeology, Detection, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood." In Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781403919328_5.

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"MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE FICTION." In Crime Fiction. Routledge, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203598535-9.

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Tomc, Sandra. "4. Questing Women: The Feminist Mystery after Feminism." In Feminism in Women's Detective Fiction, edited by Glenwood Irons. University of Toronto Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442623088-006.

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Dasgupta, Ushashi. "‘Is This an Hotel? Are There Thieves in the House?’." In Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198859116.003.0006.

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This chapter suggests that tenancy plays a major role in nineteenth-century detective fiction, an emerging genre that counted Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Warren Adams as enthusiastic early practitioners. The chapter starts by investigating the relationship between geography, class, and morality in contemporary social discourses, focusing on the ‘low’ or ‘common’ lodging house in London. Low lodging houses were widely associated with criminal behaviour, and Dickens and Collins were interested in the function they could perform in their fiction. The chapter moves on to examine the murders that take place in Bleak House, The Moonstone, and The Notting Hill Mystery, and argues that rented space becomes a tool in the battle between detective and criminal. The chapter ends with an extended reading of Krook’s lodging house and rag-and-bone shop in Bleak House. Here, a mystery narrative intersects with farce and the Gothic, attesting to the porosity between aesthetic forms.
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"A Journey Lost in Mystery: Mario Vargas Llosa’s Death in the Andes." In Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315576794-12.

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Gautreau, Justin. "Soundproofing Scandal." In The Last Word. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190944551.003.0004.

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This chapter argues that hard-boiled detective fiction provided disillusioned screenwriters with a platform to project a fantasy version of themselves and preserve what was left of their ego under studio employment. Where the screenwriter felt emasculated, creatively stunted, and expendable, the hard-boiled detective was characteristically tough, autonomous, and invaluable in taking care of the studio’s dirty work. Meanwhile, in their aim to disrupt the promotional façade of Hollywood, these writers found inspiration not only in the political limits of the screen but also in the industry’s ongoing efforts to regulate Hollywood as a place. A.C. and Carmen Edington’s novel The Studio Murder Mystery and Raoul Whitfield’s Death in a Bowl therefore created a critical lens through which to view the “real” Hollywood in the era of the talkies. These novels treat Hollywood Boulevard and the Hollywood Bowl as extensions of soundstages where stars perform their studio-mandated morals clause for an unsuspecting public. It is only by realizing that movie “magic” is no longer exclusive to studio lots that the detective can solve the mystery.
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Reports on the topic "Mystery/detective fiction"

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Kindler, Jessica. Tokuya Higashigawa's After-Dinner Mysteries: Unusual Detectives in Contemporary Japanese Mystery Fiction. Portland State University Library, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.1011.

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