Zur Literarizität der Kriminalliteratur:
1. Heta Pyrhönen (2004): Five-Finger Exercises: Mika Waltari’s Detective Stories . In: Orbis Litterarum 59 (1), 23–38.
Abstract: “This essay addresses the question of what happens when authors import into their own culture a genre whose structures and conventions have been moulded in another culture. If the imported structures and conventions include a certain value system, does an author’s adaptation cause them to express markedly different values than they do in their original context? I explore this question by analysing the detective stories by Mika Waltari, a renowned Finnish author, who used both the British whodunit and Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin stories as models.I first consider Waltari’s use of specific generic conventions and consider the national values he makes them express. I then analyse Waltari’s insertion of himself into the textual roles of detective and culprit in order to examine the link between writing detective stories and ideology. I show how Waltari creates a fundamental discrepancy between the whodunit world and the Finnish context in which he sets this world in order to emphasize the literariness of the imitated model. In his hands, writing detective stories becomes first and foremost a literary exercise that enables him to show his skilful, self-reflexive, and ironic play with literary forms and conventions”.
2. Laura J. Snyder: Sherlock Holmes: Scientific Detective. In: Endeavor 28.3 (2004), 104-108.
Abstract: ” [...] By examining Holmes’ methods, it becomes clear that Conan Doyle modelled them on certain images of science that were popular in mid- to late-19th century Britain. Contrary to a common view, it is also evident that rather than being responsible for the invention of forensic science, the creation of Holmes was influenced by the early development of it.”
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