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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 inevident layers within the phenomenon of narration of mystery fiction. The initial methodological point is presented by the concept of V. P. Rudnev, who identified interrelation between the mystery fiction storylines and dominant gnoseological paradigm. The author determines the four levels of narration of mystery fiction: ontological, gnoseological, anthropological, and ethical-normative. The classical (analytical) mystery fiction describes reality commensurable to human reason (ontological level), investigation appears as strict analysis (gnoseological level), detective resembles a “private thinker” who is distant from the society and the crime itself (anthropological level), and a crime is interpreted as a deviation that disturbs harmony of the rational order (ethical-normative level). In this sense, a classical mystery fiction is a reflection of metanarrative of modernity, aimed at building a complete system, and excluding the Other. At the same time, the crisis of the basis of modernity is essentially reflected in metamorphoses of mystery fiction genre. In existential and pragmatic mystery fiction, reality is irrational, and boundaries between the norm and deviation are being diluted. Such situation may be describes as disappointment in metanarrative – in underlines the inability of modern culture to adequately fulfill its fundamental functions. The Other strike roots in the cultural space; however, the space itself exists in accordance with the principles of postmodern anarchy.
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Gerhard, Kristin H. "Mystery and Detective Fiction:." Public Library Quarterly 10, no. 4 (March 31, 1991): 49–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j118v10n04_05.

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Gouthro, Patricia A. "Women of Mystery." Adult Education Quarterly 64, no. 4 (September 3, 2014): 356–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741713614549573.

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This article explores the learning pathways of 15 Canadian and American female crime fiction authors. Using a critical feminist perspective, it argues that despite the neoliberal rhetoric of individual choice, as in most careers, there are social-structural factors that create opportunities and barriers for women mystery writers. The article explores the background factors that shape women’s interest in writing crime fiction, considers the challenges that they face in developing their careers, and looks at the supports that may help them to attain success. Despite challenges, there is often intrinsic value in doing meaningful work that may motivate women to develop a fiction-writing career.
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Nash, Ilana, and R. Gordon Kelly. "Mystery Fiction and Modern Life." South Central Review 18, no. 3/4 (2001): 122. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3190359.

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Bielke-Rodenbiker, Jean. "Review Sources for Mystery Fiction." Collection Management 29, no. 3-4 (October 12, 2004): 53–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j105v29n03_05.

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Cawelti, John G., and R. Gordon Kelly. "Mystery Fiction and Modern Life." Journal of American History 85, no. 4 (March 1999): 1640. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2568370.

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Halli, Robert W., and R. Gordon Kelly. "Mystery Fiction and Modern Life." South Atlantic Review 64, no. 1 (1999): 134. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3201760.

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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 female detective—as a case to be solved; supported by friends; and succeeding through persistence, pluck, and luck.
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Davis, Caitlin. "“Realistic Villains”." Digital Literature Review 10, no. 1 (April 18, 2023): 96–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/dlr.10.1.96-106.

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Crime films–one of the most beloved forms of crime fiction—have a close relationship with society due to their themes and subject matter. Because of this relationship, crime films are able to use their genre-specific elements to include social commentary within their storylines. Using their victims, suspects, and resolutions of the crimes, modern crime fiction pieces such as Rian Johnson’s 2019 film Knives Out and Halina Reijn’s 2022 film Bodies Bodies Bodies both implement larger conversations within their stories. In Knives Out, the audience follows the mystery behind the sudden death of the renowned author, Harlan Thrombey—the suspects being his family and staff. Within the film’s mystery, Johnson uses elements of the story to recognize and critique those in power who benefit from privilege. Bodies Bodies Bodies focuses on couple Bee and Sophie as they join Sophie’s upper-class influencer friends for a weekend of partying, but mystery ensues when one of the friends is found dead, leaving only those within the house as suspects. Throughout the film, Reijn exemplifies the harmful way younger generations are utilizing technology while also critiquing problematic behaviors within influencer culture. This essay will use these pieces of modern crime fiction to explore how fictional crime narratives can use their stories to include social commentary.
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Beasley, Brett. "Kant’s “Jewel” and Collins’s “Moonstone”." Renascence 75, no. 3 (2023): 212–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/renascence2023753/412.

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Mystery fiction is sometimes assumed—both by scholars and by general readers—to have a simple or even simplistic relationship to morality. Mysteries, on this view, are straightforward "whodunnits": They satisfy readers by identifying wrongdoing and then assigning blame to the individual or individuals responsible. In this paper, I offer a contrary view. I show that the moral laboratory of mystery fiction often winds up subverting, undermining, and unsettling some of our most basic moral assumptions and our standard approaches to thinking about moral responsibility and moral justification. It does so, I argue, by emphasizing what philosophers term moral luck. I center my analysis on moral luck as it appears in The Moonstone, the novel T. S. Eliot called “the first, the longest, and the best” piece of detective fiction, and I offer suggestions for reading later works of mystery fiction with moral luck in mind.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Mystery fiction"

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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 discover the lair of the terrorist group known as the Midnight Riders, Youngblood and the FBI must thwart the plan before the group can execute its "big event." Meanwhile, Youngblood's adopted daughter, Lacy, asks him to investigate the death of a classmate. Clay Carr, a local all-state football player, has crashed his car and killed his girlfriend. As Clay remains in a coma, Youngblood learns the crash was no accident. Working with his police-detective wife, Mary, he travels through a maze of dead ends trying to find the person responsible. Juggling two cases at the same time is nothing new for Donald Youngblood, who once again proves he is up to the tast."--BOOK JACKET.
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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-genre of American Indian literature that has, to date, received little scholarly attention. This study considers eight novels and two made for TV movies that are either written by Native American writers, feature Native American characters and settings, or both. The novels and films that are analyzed represent a spectrum of mystery, crime, and detective stories: starting with the historical mysteries about the Osage Oil Murders presented by Linda Hogan and Tom Holm; to the calls to action regarding contemporary issues of justice, jurisdiction, and violence against American Indian women offered by Frances Washburn and Louise Erdrich; to the short series that invoke intricate questions about history and identity created by Louis Owens; and, finally, to Tony Hillerman's immensely popular hard-boiled Navajo tribal policemen who are brought to the small screen by Chris Eyre, where the distinctions between Western and Indigenous conceptions of healing and spiritual belief are highlighted. These novels and films illustrate a range of American Indian mystery, crime, and detective fiction, and my analysis illuminates the ways in which these texts work to inform and transform readers in regard to issues that surround crime and justice within American Indian contexts.
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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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Donnelly, Keith. "Three Deuces Down: A Donald Youngblood Mystery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. http://amzn.com/1588382273.

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"Bored Wall Street whiz kid Donald Youngblood returns to his East Tennessee hometown and on a whim gets a Private Investigator license. Joined by his best friend Billy Two Feathers, a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, they open Cherokee Investigations and for a few years work small cases and just hang out. Then Don is summoned by the rich and powerful Joseph Fleet to find his missing daughter and son-in-law. As Don and Billy go through the motions of investigating the disappearance, a sinister plot unfolds complicated by a restless girlfriend, a New York mob boss and a killer on the loose with Don in his sights. From the backwoods of Tennessee to the coast of Florida to the streets of New York and half way around the world, Donald Youngblood, with the help of some well-connected friends and a nose for trouble, chases an elusive and deadly foe to extract the ultimate revenge and realize the chase will change his life forever."--BOOK JACKET.
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Donnelly, Keith. "Three Devils Dancing: A Donald Youngblood Mystery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. http://amzn.com/0895873982.

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"In Keith Donnelly's third mystery featuring private investigator Donald Youngblood (after Three Deuces Down and Three Days Dead), all the usual players return in Don's biggest case yet. His quiet home life has become a bit more complicated with live-in love Mary Sanders and quasi-daughter Lacy Malone ruling the roost. Then a father's plea for justice for his dead daughter leads Don into a maze of murder as he tries to unravel the mystery of a strange tattoo that is part of a deadly game with rules so sinister only the devil himself would approve. As the body count mounts and the murders draw national attention, Don and an old FBI nemesis close in on a deranged killer who will not stop until he is either caught or killed. Matter get even more complicated when a young mother ends up in a coma, an old friend is in bad need of counseling, and a drug kingpin calls in a favor. As Don juggles two cases with the help of partner Billy Two Feathers and a new ally, Oscar Morales, he wonders if becoming a private investigator was such a good idea in the first place."--AMAZON
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Donnelly, Keith. "Three Days Dead: A Donald Youngblood Mystery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. http://amzn.com/0895873729.

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"When Tennessee private investigator Donald Youngblood solved the Fairchild case in Three Deuces Down, he vowed never again to go hunting for a missing person. With live-in-love and Mountain Center cop, Mary Sanders, and his faithful black Standard Poodle, Don's life has settled back into its old routine. All of that is about to change. An attractive, precocious teenage girl shows up in his office one morning needing help finding her missing mother. Now, Don must track down a mother gone wrong while trying to find her abandoned daughter a proper home before child welfare gets the scent. To complicate matters, an old flame is being harassed by a former boyfriend, who is not what he appears to be, and she is begging Don to do something about it. Tracking down the missing mother with the help of his best friend and partner and Don's ever-dangerous new friend, the trail of clues leads to a Las Vegas confrontation where Don comes face to face with henchmen of a Vegas bad boy, and nearly pays the ultimate price."--AMAZON
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Donnelly, Keith. "Three Deadly Drops: A Donald Youngblood Mystery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. http://amzn.com/089587587X.

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"In the fourth Donald Youngblood mystery more than a year has passed since Don closed the file on the Three Devils case. His personal life is trending upward, his business is booming, and no one has come to him with a case likely to get him killed. All of that changes when Jessica Crane walks into Don's office, asking him to look into the apparent heart-attack death of her husband. Don is convinced that Mrs. Crane's request is just the delusion of a grieving widow. As he goes through the motions of his investigations, he uncovers a mysterious note and a 20-year-old photograph of a group of soldiers known as the Southside Seven. Don soon thinks the grieving widow might be on to something. The Silver Star, a soldier with a stress problem, an Army Ranger black ops mission gone wrong, a mysterious assassin, and a missing vial are all pieces to the puzzle that Don races to fit together before anyone else dies. In the desert of New Mexico, the bayou country of Louisiana, the mean streets of Memphis, and small towns in South Carolina and Kentucky, a haunting mystery unfolds as Donald Youngblood uncovers a startling secret from Desert Storm that haunted the seven men who shared it."--AMAZON
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Donnelly, Keith. "Three Dragons Doomed: A Donald Youngblood Mystery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. http://amzn.com/0895876272.

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"Outside the small town of Saddle Boot, West Virginia, a bulldozer uncovers a long-buried body. Only four living people know it's that of drifter Johnny Cross. But Johnny Cross was not who he appeared to be. In the early-morning hours a few days later, in Mountain Center, Tennessee, a body is dumped in a downtown back alley, a young female dead less than twenty-four hours. Over the next few weeks, two more dead females turn up in East Tennessee. A serial killer with an unusual signature is on the loose. The only thing that connects these events is private investigator Donald Youngblood. Don knows the identities of the body in West Virginia and the dead women dumped in East Tennessee. He also knows the bodies are personal messages for him from a killer seeking revenge. A new and deadly game has begun. In this unique double sequel to Three Days Dead and Three Devils Dancing, Youngblood wrestles with two separate and distinct cases: finding the true identity of Johnny Cross and tracking down a serial killer who seems to be in a big hurry for a final showdown."--AMAZON
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Law, G. "Mystery and uncertainty in modern fiction : A comparative parallel case study of the relations between popular mystery forms and modern non-classical fiction." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371196.

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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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Books on the topic "Mystery fiction"

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K, Kamerman Sylvia, ed. Writing mystery and crime fiction. Boston: The Writer, 1985.

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Gilbert, Elliott. The World of Mystery Fiction. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1990.

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Gilbert, Elliot L. The World of Mystery Fiction. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1990.

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W, Raphael Lawrence, ed. Mystery midrash: An anthology of Jewish mystery & detective fiction. Woodstock, Vt: Jewish Lights Pub., 1999.

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Barnett, Colleen A. Mystery women: An encyclopedia of leading women characters in mystery fiction. South Bend, IN: Ravenstone Books, 1997.

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E, Rollyson Carl, ed. Critical survey of mystery and detective fiction. Pasadena, Calif: Salem Press, 2008.

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E, Kamerman Sylvia, ed. How to write and sell mystery fiction. Boston: Writer, 1990.

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

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Bill, Pronzini, and Greenberg Martin Harry, eds. The Ethnic Detectives: Masterpieces of mystery fiction. New York, USA: Dodd, Mead, 1985.

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1965-, Kelleghan Fiona, ed. 100 masters of mystery and detective fiction. Pasadena, Calif: Salem Press, 2001.

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Book chapters on the topic "Mystery fiction"

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Jebb, John. "Detective and Mystery Fiction." In The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South, 175–78. New York: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003009924-45.

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Trensky, Paul I. "Detective and Mystery Stories." In The Fiction of Josef Škvorecký, 118–25. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21531-7_11.

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Bliss, Carolyn. "The Major Phase: the Mystery of Failure." In Patrick White’s Fiction, 60–132. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18327-2_3.

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Cothran, Casey A. "Mystery and Detective Fiction and Ecofeminism." In The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature, 458–68. New York: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003195610-46.

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Routledge, Christopher. "Children’s Detective Fiction and the ‘Perfect Crime’ of Adulthood." In Mystery in Children's Literature, 64–81. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780333985137_5.

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Thornbury, Barbara E. "Tokyo Cartographies of Mystery and Crime." In Mapping Tokyo in Fiction and Film, 167–96. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34276-0_6.

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Cothran, Casey A. "Mystery and Detective Fiction as Trans Literature." In The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature, 353–65. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003365938-35.

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Stephens, John, and Robyn McCallum. "‘There Are Worse Things Than Ghosts’: Reworking Horror Chronotopes in Australian Children’s Fiction." In Mystery in Children's Literature, 165–83. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780333985137_11.

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Tredell, Nicolas. "Descent into Hell: Other People: A Mystery Story (1981)." In The Fiction of Martin Amis, 44–54. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-19344-5_5.

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Mutch, Deborah. "‘Casey', ‘Alice in Sunderland. A Baffling Mystery' (1914)." In British Socialist Fiction, 1884-1914, Volume 5, 301–3. London: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003553359-24.

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Conference papers on the topic "Mystery fiction"

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Tavares, Tatiana. "Paradoxical saints: Polyvocality in an interactive AR digital narrative." In LINK 2021. Tuwhera Open Access, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/link2021.v2i1.81.

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This artistic, practice-led PhD thesis is concerned with the potentials of polyvocality and interactive digital narrative. The practical project, Saints of Paradox, is constructed as a printed picture book that can be experienced through an Augmented Reality [AR] platform. The fictional story entails a woman who mourns the disappearance of her lover in the 1964 Brazilian coup d’état and lives for 40 years in a room of accumulated memories. IIn each illustration, the user can select three buttons on the tablet device that activates a different version of the story. Three narrators (saints) present interconnected but diverging interpretations of the events shaped by their distinct theological positions. The respective values of compassion, orthodoxy, and pragmatic realism distort details of imagery, sound, movement, and meaning. AR animated vignettes, each backed by a uniquely composed cinematic soundscape, allow characters to populate the luxuriously illustrated world. Candles flicker and burn, snakes curl through breathing flowerbeds, and rooms furnished with the contents of accumulated memories pulsate with mystery. The scanned image reviews an interactive parallax that produces a sense of three-dimensional space, functioning as a technical and conceptual component. Theoretically, the story navigates relationships between the real and the imagined and refers to magical real binary modes of textual representation (Flores, 1955, Champi, 1980; Slemon, 1988, 1995; Spindler, 1993; Zamora and Faris; 1995; Bowers, 2004). Here, meaning negotiates an unreliable, sometimes paradoxical pathway between rational and irrational accounting and polyvocal narration. The dynamics between the book and the AR environments produce a sense of mixed reality (actual and virtual). The narrative experience resides primarily in an unstable virtual world, and the printed book functions as an enigmatic unoccupied vessel. Because of this, we encounter a sense of ontological reversal where the ‘virtual’ answers the ambiguities presented by the ‘real’ (the book). In the work, religious syncretism operates as a reference to Brazilian culture and an artistic device used to communicate a negotiation of different voices and points of view. The strange and somehow congruous forms of European, African, and indigenous influences merge to form the photomontage world of the novel. Fragments of imagery may be considered semiotic markers of cultural and ideological miscegenation and assembled into an ambiguous ‘new real’ state of being that suggests syncretic completeness. Methodologically, the project emanates from a post-positivist, artistic research paradigm (Klein, 2010). It is supported by a heuristic approach (Douglass and Moustakas, 1985) to the discovery and refinement of ideas through indwelling and explicitness. Thus, the research draws upon tacit and explicit knowledge in developing a fictional narrative, structure, and stylistic treatments. A series of research methods were employed to assess the communicative potential of the work. Collaboration with other practitioners enabled high expertise levels and provided an informed platform of exchange and idea progression.
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Reports on the topic "Mystery fiction"

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

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