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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... Kinbote's " past with no past " would have the timeless reality of art . Kinbote attempts quite an original enterprise : he tries to impose on the future ( what will be written by Shade ) the poetry of a never existent past . Eventually ...
... Kinbote's expectations about Shade's poem has a similar func- tion : it is a " chemical reagent " that brings Kinbote's potential as an artist into actuality . As he denies his work as a commentator and refuses to ex- plain the poem ...
... Kinbote's pseudocommentary . The first hint concerning the fact that the imaginary Jakob Gradus ( whom Kinbote names also Jacques d'Argus , Jack De- gree , Vinogradus , etc. ) is actually Jack Grey is given by Kin- bote while he is ...
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The Development of the Detective Novel and | 1 |
Toward a Definition of the AntiDetective | 35 |
The Innovative AntiDetective Novel | 52 |
Urheberrecht | |
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