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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... kind of scout - crime fighter who is a late " industrialized " ver- sion of Cooper's Natty Bumppo and of characters celebrated in the French feuilleton . He makes very little use of the detective process ; he is too busy - a man of ...
... kind of post- World War II literary detective novel " the anti - detective novel " since its characteristics , although certainly more related to the Poesque tradition than to the hard - boiled one , deeply sub- verted the former and ...
... kind of ending for fairy tale collections and , perhaps ironically , for " reality " ( the outer story of Ludmilla ... kind of story ( the kind of imitation of a novel form 126 The Doomed Detective.
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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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