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Jolly Good Detecting
Author | : Bruce Shaw |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2013-12-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780786478866 |
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This book is an appreciation of selected authors who make extensive use of humor in English detective/crime fiction. Works using humor as an amelioration of the serious have their heyday in the Golden Age of crime writing but they belong also to a long tradition. There is an identifiable lineage of humorous writing in crime fiction that ranges from mild wit to outright farce, burlesque, even slapstick. A mix of entertainment with instruction is a tradition in English letters. English crime fiction writers of the era circa 1913 to 1940 were raised in the mainstream literary tradition but turned their skills to detective fiction. And they are the humorists of the genre. This book is not an exhaustive study but an introduction into the best produced by the most capable and enjoyable authors. What the humorists seek is to surprise the reader by overturning their expectations using a repertoire of stylistic conceits and motifs (recurring incidents, devices, references). Humor has a liberating effect but is concerned too with "comic contrast" through ugliness and caricature. In crime fiction one effect is intellectual pleasure at solving (or attempting to solve) a puzzle. Another is entertainment but with serious undertones.
Jolly Good Detecting
Author | : Bruce Shaw |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2013-12-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781476613963 |
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This book is an appreciation of selected authors who make extensive use of humor in English detective/crime fiction. Works using humor as an amelioration of the serious have their heyday in the Golden Age of crime writing but they belong also to a long tradition. There is an identifiable lineage of humorous writing in crime fiction that ranges from mild wit to outright farce, burlesque, even slapstick. A mix of entertainment with instruction is a tradition in English letters. English crime fiction writers of the era circa 1913 to 1940 were raised in the mainstream literary tradition but turned their skills to detective fiction. And they are the humorists of the genre. This book is not an exhaustive study but an introduction into the best produced by the most capable and enjoyable authors. What the humorists seek is to surprise the reader by overturning their expectations using a repertoire of stylistic conceits and motifs (recurring incidents, devices, references). Humor has a liberating effect but is concerned too with "comic contrast" through ugliness and caricature. In crime fiction one effect is intellectual pleasure at solving (or attempting to solve) a puzzle. Another is entertainment but with serious undertones.
Freda A Novel
Author | : Freda |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NLS:V001487594 |
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Freda by the author of Mrs Jerningham s journal
Author | : Elizabeth Anna Hart |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:600060253 |
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Public Opinion
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 846 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Press |
ISBN | : COLUMBIA:CU08520321 |
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The Delights of Detection
Author | : Jacques Barzun |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN | : UOM:39015013356285 |
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Eyewitness and Other Tales of Detection
Author | : Satyabrata Dam |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories, Indic (English) |
ISBN | : UOM:39015050788556 |
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Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection
Author | : Michael Cox |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106010485719 |
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Le Fanu, Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs. Henry Wood, Wilkie Collins, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Fergus Hume, Arthur Morrison, M.P. Shiel, Baroness Orczy, Sax Rohmer, Robert Barr, and - inevitably - Arthur Conan Doyle. There are police detectives, gentleman amateurs, lady detectives (such as Catherine Pirkis's Loveday Brooke), professional consulting detectives, even an 'anti-detective' (Guy Boothby's Klimo, who devises a crime for himself to solve), and a psychic detective. The villains against whom they pit their wits are equally various, as are their crimes - from fraud and forgery to theft, abduction, and of course murder most foul, whether by poison, bullet, or blade. These stories offer hours of enjoyable escape for all lovers of crime fiction.