The Doomed Detective: The Contribution of the Detective Novel to Postmodern American and Italian FictionSouthern Illinois University Press, 1984 - 183 Seiten "Tani's dissertation is the most stunningly original and intelligent I have encountered in 25years of teaching," wrote the late novelist John Gardner. Tani's argument says that the "mystery story as written by Hammett and others and touted by the French existentialists led to a new kind of novel and the old-style mystery, as written by, for example, Agatha Christie, seemed a literary dead end--a conservative if not reactionary game. In recent years, Tani shows, the seeming dead end has led to the most important literary movement now visible: the ironic intellectual fiction of people ranging from Borges and Barth to Calvino, and he proves that the spearhead of this movement is Italian fiction as influenced by American mystery fiction. At first glance, the argument seems outrageous. The brilliance of Tani's thesis--besides the original outrageous idea--is that he solidly and systematically makes his case." |
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The Contribution of the Detective Novel to Postmodern American and Italian Fiction Stefano Tani. mystery on the Italian market , can we talk of a recognition of the genre as such by a wide and educated readership . While the British ...
... Italian society ( i.e. , crime , kidnapping , strikes , political and administrative corrup- tion , internal immigration , and drugs ) , easily finding its inspira- tion in the newspapers . Among the other Italian media , film began ...
... Italian life and society . But when we come to pres- ent - day detective fiction , the situation changes . If there ever have been two separate trends in Italian detective fiction , it is now when , as in the United States , we find a ...
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The Development of the Detective Novel and | 1 |
Toward a Definition of the AntiDetective | 35 |
The Innovative AntiDetective Novel | 52 |
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