Narrow your search

Library

ULiège (4)

KBR (2)

LUCA School of Arts (2)

Odisee (2)

Thomas More Kempen (2)

Thomas More Mechelen (2)

UCLL (2)

VIVES (2)

VUB (2)

UAntwerpen (1)

More...

Resource type

book (4)


Language

English (4)


Year
From To Submit

2015 (1)

2013 (1)

2010 (1)

2009 (1)

Listing 1 - 4 of 4
Sort by

Book
The annotated Poe
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 9780674055292 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : the Belknap press of Harvard university press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Presents a selection of Poe's tales and poems with in-depth marginal notes elucidating his sources, obscure words and passages, and literary, biographical, and historical allusions.


Book
Crime fiction since 1800 : detection, death, diversity
Author:
ISBN: 0230580742 9780230580749 Year: 2010 Publisher: Basingstoke [England] New York : Palgrave Macmillan,


Book
The imagination of Evil : detective fiction and the modern world
Author:
ISBN: 128245305X 1441171738 9781441171733 9781282453050 9781847062062 1847062067 1441179682 9781441179685 Year: 2009 Publisher: London New York : Continuum,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

From its growth in Europe in the nineteenth century, detective fiction has developed into one of the most popular genres of literature and popular culture more widely. In this monograph, Mary Evans examines detective fiction and its complex relationship to the modern and to modernity. She focuses on two key themes: the moral relationship of detection (and the detective) to a particular social world and the attempt to restore and even improve the social world that has been threatened and fractured by a crime, usually that of murder. It is a characteristic of much detective fiction that the detective, the pursuer, is a social outsider: this status creates a complex web of relationships between detective, institutional life and dominant and subversive moralities. Evans questions who and what the detective stands for and suggests that the answer challenges many of our assumptions about the relationship between various moralities in the modern world.


Book
America is elsewhere : the noir tradition in the age of consumer culture
Author:
ISBN: 0199970734 9780199970735 9780199969913 0199969914 9780199969920 0199969922 1299940102 9781299940109 9780199369027 019936902X Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

America is Elsewhere provides a rigorous and creative reconsideration of hard-boiled crime fiction and the film noir tradition within three related postwar contexts: 1) the rise of the consumer republic in the United States after World War II, 2) the challenge to traditional notions of masculinity posed by a new form of citizenship based in consumption, and 3) the simultaneous creation of "authenticity effects" - representational strategies designed to safeguard an image of both the American male and America itself outside of and in opposition to the increasingly omnipresent marketplace.

Listing 1 - 4 of 4
Sort by