A Common Spring: Crime Novel and Classic

ISBN-13: 9780879721428 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 271 str.

Nadya Aisenberg

Opis

Nadya Aisenberg discusses the potentialities of the crime novel, its implications, principles, and scope, and its analogy ot myth and the fairy tale. She proposes that the detective story and the thriller have made an unacknowledged contribution to serious literature. Her discussion of Dickens, Conrad, and Green indicate that each borrowed many important ingredients from the formulaic novel.