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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... longer a logical mind in a positivistic world as he was in Poe's tales . His attempts to unravel the mystery often clash against his own impulses and against a " reality " which is no longer explained and constricted within the optim ...
... longer a con- quered land but , at least on paper , part of Italy , with equal rights and equal duties . " At the present time , in Italy , the aim of the Mafia is not to subvert the state by overthrowing it , which would be utopian in ...
... longer able to consider as such ( Laurana and the widow in A ciascuno il suo ) . In other words , the first thing to question is no longer the mystery , but the detective . Laurana's solution of the mystery is ultimately useless because ...
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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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Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary Steven Connor Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1989 |