Author: Émile GaboriauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Le Crime D'Orcival
Author: Émile GaboriauThe mystery of Orcival
Author: Emile GaboriauThe Pleasures of Crime
Author: David PlattenPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401207178
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
For 150 years the French public and literati have enjoyed a love affair with crime fiction. This book investigates the nature of this relationship and how through periods of dramatic social and political change in France it has flourished. It challenges the conventional view of a popular genre feeding a niche market, depicting crime fiction instead as a field of creative endeavour, which has gradually matured into one of considerable literary fertility. By inviting us to share secrets and crack codes, creating suspense and (at times) not shirking from presenting horrific events in graphic language, the crime story brings into play the intellect and emotions of its readership. This book explores both this intrinsic literary value of the crime novel and its extrinsic witness to historical events and cultural trends, arguing that these apparently distinct aspects are in fact dynamic, interrelated parts of the same whole. This blend of cultural history with literary analysis allows for the discussion of themes such as politics, memory, the urban environment and youth cultures, mixed with case studies of major French crime writers, including Gaston Leroux, Georges Simenon, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Daniel Pennac and Fred Vargas.
Secrets of Crime Fiction Classics
Author: Stephen KnightPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476618984
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Starting with William Godwin's Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, this book covers in detail the great works of detective fiction--Poe's Dupin stories, Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Sayers' Strong Poison, Chandler's The Big Sleep, and Simenon's The Yellow Dog. Lesser-known but important early works are also discussed, including Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, Emile Gaboriau's M. Lecoq, Anna Katharine Green's The Leavenworth Case and Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. More recent titles show increasing variety in the mystery genre, with Patricia Highsmith's criminal-focused The Talented Mr. Ripley and Chester Himes' African-American detectives in Cotton Comes to Harlem. Diversity develops further in Sara Paretsky's tough woman detective V.I. Warshawski in Indemnity Only, Umberto Eco's medievalist and postmodern The Name of the Rose and the forensic feminism of Patricia Cornwell's Postmortem. Notably, the best modern crime fiction has been primarily international--Manuel Vasquez Montalban's Catalan Summer Seas, Ian Rankin's Edinburgh-set The Naming of the Dead, Sweden's Stieg Larsson's The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo and Vikram Chanda's Mumbai-based Sacred Games. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Finding List
Author: Finding List of Books & Pamphlets: Embracing belles-lettres (poetry, drama, romance, literary history and criticism, essays, oratory, humor, satire, etc.) together with language, bibliography and general reference books
Author: Buffalo. Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogues
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Finding List ...
Author: Buffalo LibraryWorks of Fiction in the French Language
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Finding-list of Books and Pamphlets in the Buffalo Library (formerly the Young Men's Library, of Buffalo).
Author: Buffalo Public Library (Buffalo, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Whodunit?
Author: Rosemary HerbertPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195157613
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A mystery expert investigates how the giants of the genre pull off all those crimes and keep the twists coming page after page, then shows readers how they can do it too.