Detecting detection : international perspectives on the uses of a plot /

We indulge our fascination with detection in many ways, only some of which occur in the detective story. In fact, modern fiction regularly uses elements of a detective narrative to tell another story altogether, to engage characters, narrators, and readers with questions of identity, with examinatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baker, Peter, 1955-, Shaller, Deborah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Continuum, 2012.
Temas:
Detective and mystery stories > Authorship.
Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
Fiction > Technique.
Fiction > Authorship.
Intrigues (Théâtre, roman, etc.)
Roman > Art d'écrire.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
Detective and mystery stories > Authorship
Fiction > Authorship
Fiction > Technique
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contributors; Editors' introduction; 1 The detection plot as a means of testimony in Ann-Marie MacDonald's The Way the Crow Flies; 2 Is The Savage Detectives a detective story?; 3 Detectivism as a means of resistance in Juan Marsé's El embrujo de Shanghai; 4 Two men walk into a bar; 5 Espionage and the war on secrecy and terror in Graham Greene and beyond; 6 The stories we all tell: the function of language and knowledge in Julia Kristeva's novel Possessions; 7 Zen Keytsch: mystery handymen with dragon tattoos; 8 Knowing the unknowable: detecting metaphysics and religion in crime fiction

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