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Crime Fiction etc. (Forschung)

Ilana Shiloh: The Double, the Labyrinth and the Locked Room. Metaphors of Paradox in Crime Fiction and Film. New York [et al.]: Lang 2011. Verlagsanzeige (inkl. ToC): “Traditional detective fiction celebrates the victory of order and reason over the senseless violence of crime. Yet in spite of its apparent valorization of rationality, the detective genre [...]

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“Ripped from the Headlines” (Detective Fiction 1925-1930)

“When I first began studying the detective story in those innocent early 1980s, it was possible in a single summer to read every book-length work written about the genre —both the brilliant and the pedestrian — as well as most, it not all, of the journal articles. A summer will no longer suffice. And although [...]

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