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Jolly Good Detecting: Humor in English Crime Fiction of the Golden Age
ISBN: 9780786478866 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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...
This book is an appreciation of selected authors who make extensive use of humor in English detective/crime fiction. Works using humor as an ameliorat...
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Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story: The Haunted Text
ISBN: 9781137294883 / Angielski / Twarda / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story is a lively series of case studies celebrating the close relationship between detective fiction and the ghost story. It features many of the most famous authors from both genres including Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, M. R. James and Tony Hillerman.
Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story is a lively series of case studies celebrating the close relationship between detective fiction and the ghost st...
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The Metaphysics of Detective Marlowe: Style, Vision, Hard-Boiled Repartee, Thugs, and Death-Dealing Damsels in Raymond Chandler's Novels
ISBN: 9780739186572 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Metaphysics of Detective Marlowe: Style, Vision, Hard-Boiled Repartee, Thugs, and Death-Dealing Damsels in Raymond Chandler's Novels is a comparative study of 'the life and times" of an American idol, Raymond Chandler's detective Philip Marlowe. It is a bitter-sweet critical exploration, meant to redefine the exceptional cultural profile, as well as the moral and social obsessions of one of America's eminent fictional heroes. The study paints a colorful picture of the irresistible blend of romantic blind faith and social, moral and political toughness which characterized the United States...
The Metaphysics of Detective Marlowe: Style, Vision, Hard-Boiled Repartee, Thugs, and Death-Dealing Damsels in Raymond Chandler's Novels is a comparat...
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446,92 |
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Bloody Italy: Essays on Crime Writing in Italian Settings
ISBN: 9780786458646 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a critical analysis of contemporary fiction and nonfiction set in Italy. All the works are available in English. The writers discussed range from Donna Leon and Michael Dibdin to Leonardo Sciascia and Andrea Camilleri. Chapters also deal with nonfiction by Roberto Saviano and Douglas Preston. An emerging theme is the corruption of Italian police and judiciary officials and the frustration of officers and politicians trying to work ethically within a flawed system. Many of the works discussed show the struggle of the honest characters to find at least a limited justice for the...
This book is a critical analysis of contemporary fiction and nonfiction set in Italy. All the works are available in English. The writers discussed ra...
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272,11 |
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Investigating Sherlock Holmes: Solved and Unsolved Mysteries
ISBN: 9780889629929 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Enter the world of Sherlock Holmes ... It is vast, complex, endlessly fascinating, full of characters, intrigue, twists, turns, amusing, engrossing and much more. And, there are thousands and thousands of people all on every continent who participate in this Sherlock Holmes world. They are known as Sherlockians, Bootmakers (taking the name from an allusion in the Hounds of the Baskervilles). They attend meetings, dinners, exchange views, write papers, discuss...they find many ways to share their obsessions. The most famous Sherlock Holmes Society is the Baker Street Irregulars, founded in...
Enter the world of Sherlock Holmes ... It is vast, complex, endlessly fascinating, full of characters, intrigue, twists, turns, amusing, engrossing an...
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Rex Stout Does Not Belong In Russia: Exporting the Detective Novel
ISBN: 9781533082077 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rex Stout was a titan of twentieth-century American detective fiction. His genius hero Nero Wolfe, weighing in at one-seventh of a ton, was featured in more than 70 novels and novellas with his wise-cracking hard-boiled assistant and amanuensis Archie Goodwin. Besides being a great story teller, however, Stout was a staunch left-wing anti-Communist, a political position that found its way into Stout's plots (and Nero Wolfe's dialogue). So it is surprising that the Wolfe novels were published-and popular-in the Soviet Union. In this study, Molly Jane Levine Zuckerman traces Stout's popularity...
Rex Stout was a titan of twentieth-century American detective fiction. His genius hero Nero Wolfe, weighing in at one-seventh of a ton, was featured i...
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Paperback Confidential: Crime Writers of the Paperback Era
ISBN: 9781933586618 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PAPERBACK CONFIDENTIAL: Crime Writers of the Paperback Era by Brian Ritt
These are the authors who turned out the dark noirs and hardboiled thrillers, private detective puzzles and psychological suspense, police procedurals and backwood melodramas, stories of passion... and cold-blooded murder. 132 profiles of the men and women who wrote the books that became the backbone of the Pulp and Paperback Era from the 1930s through the 1960s.
Here you will find information on the acknowledged masters like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M.... PAPERBACK CONFIDENTIAL: Crime Writers of the Paperback Era by Brian Ritt
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The Foreign in International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations
ISBN: 9781472569547 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The foreigner' is a familiar character in popular crime fiction, from the foreign detective whose outsider status provides a unique perspective on a familiar or exotic location to the xenophobic portrayal of the criminal 'other'. Exploring popular crime fiction from across the world, The Foreign in International Crime Writing examines these popular works as 'transcultural contact zones' in which writers can tackle such issues as national identity, immigration, globalization and diaspora communities. Offering readings of 20th and 21st-century crime writing from Norway, the UK, India,... 'The foreigner' is a familiar character in popular crime fiction, from the foreign detective whose outsider status provides a unique perspective on... |
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Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies
ISBN: 9780745664040 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the same period, psychiatry was inventing paranoia, sociology was devising new forms of causality to explain the social lives of individuals and groups and political science was shifting the problematics of paranoia from the psychic to the social realm and seeking to explain historical events in terms of conspiracy theories. In each instance, social reality was cast into doubt. We owe the project of organizing and...
The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and ea...
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281,24 |
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Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies
ISBN: 9780745664057 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the same period, psychiatry was inventing paranoia, sociology was devising new forms of causality to explain the social lives of individuals and groups and political science was shifting the problematics of paranoia from the psychic to the social realm and seeking to explain historical events in terms of conspiracy theories. In each instance, social reality was cast into doubt. We owe the project of organizing and...
The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and ea...
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James Ellroy
ISBN: 9780786433070 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive guide to James Ellroy's work and life is arranged as an encyclopaedia covering his entire career, from his first private-eye novel, 'Brown's Requiem', to his 2012 e-book 'Shakedown'.
This comprehensive guide to James Ellroy's work and life is arranged as an encyclopaedia covering his entire career, from his first private-eye novel,...
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Class and Culture in Crime Fiction: Essays on Works in English Since the 1970s
ISBN: 9780786473236 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crime fiction world of the late 1970s, with its increasingly diverse landscape, is a natural beginning for this collection of critical studies wherein the intersection of class, culture, and crime gets foregrounded - each nuanced with shades of gender, ethnicity, race, and politics. This collection of ten essays attempts to raise broad and complicated questions about the role of class and culture in transatlantic crime fiction beyond the Golden Age: How is "class" understood in detective fiction, other than as a socio-economic marker? Without indulging in myths or exaggerations, can we...
Crime fiction world of the late 1970s, with its increasingly diverse landscape, is a natural beginning for this collection of critical studies wherein...
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Mysteries Unlocked: Essays in Honor of Douglas G. Greene
ISBN: 9780786478132 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In honor of the 70th birthday of Professor Douglas G. Greene, mystery genre scholar and publisher, this book offers 26 essays on detective fiction by contributors around the world, including ten Edgar (Mystery Writers of America) winners and nominees. The essays cover a myriad of authors and books from over a century, from J.S. Fletcher's The Investigators, originally serialized in 1901, to P.D. James' Death Comes to Pemberley, published at the end of 2011. Subjects covered include detective fiction in the Edwardian era and the "Golden Age" between the two world wars; hard-boiled detective...
In honor of the 70th birthday of Professor Douglas G. Greene, mystery genre scholar and publisher, this book offers 26 essays on detective fiction by ...
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The Getaway Car
ISBN: 9780226121819 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the course of a fifty-year career, Donald E. Westlake published nearly one hundred books, including not one but two long-running series, starring the hard-hitting Parker and the hapless John Dortmunder. In the six years since his death, Westlake's reputation has only grown, with fans continuing to marvel at his tightly constructed plots, no-nonsense prose, and keen, even unsettling, insights into human behavior. With The Getaway Car, we get our first glimpse of another side of Westlake the writer: what he did when he wasn't busy making stuff up. And it's fascinating. Setting...
Over the course of a fifty-year career, Donald E. Westlake published nearly one hundred books, including not one but two long-running series, starring...
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George V. Higgins: The Life and Writings
ISBN: 9780786494750 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Best known for his popular crime fiction, Boston novelist George V. Higgins (1939-1999) should stand among the top ranks of the American literary canon. In his 26 novels and dozens of short stories, Higgins chronicled the lives of Boston's Irish with his trademark hard-boiled dialog, exploring the criminal underworld, American democracy, Boston politics, personal redemption and New England life in the tradition of Hawthorne and Thoreau. This intimate biography explores his turbulent life and career, including his working-class Irish Catholic roots, his two stormy marriages, his ambivalence...
Best known for his popular crime fiction, Boston novelist George V. Higgins (1939-1999) should stand among the top ranks of the American literary cano...
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Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780786495603 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the classic tales of mystery have faded from popular culture, avid collectors and cataloguers have ensured their place in the annals of literature. This anthology offers readers an exemplary sample of the hundreds of detective stories published in 19th century newspapers and magazines. All but two are stories published before 1891, before Sherlock Holmes appeared in America. The stories are categorized according to common motifs, including the largely unexplored field of women in late 19th century detection. Revealing cultural intricacies that other kinds of fiction cannot, the...
Although the classic tales of mystery have faded from popular culture, avid collectors and cataloguers have ensured their place in the annals of liter...
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View From The Cellar: A Critical Analysis of Laird Koenig's The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
ISBN: 9781492768715 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1974, Laird Koenig published the novel The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane. A film version, directed by Nicolas Gessner and starring Jodie Foster, appeared two years later. A dramatic adaptation by Mr. Koenig was published decades after in 1997. Considered a one-of-a-kind thriller and cult classic, TLGWLDTL now undergoes a considerably extensive analysis by Canadian poet R. W. Watkins. A longtime fan of writer Koenig and actress Foster, Watkins examines the story from various angles, pointing out its Judeo/Christian themes, Holocaust symbolism, film continuity errors, similarities to...
In 1974, Laird Koenig published the novel The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane. A film version, directed by Nicolas Gessner and starring Jodie Fost...
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Cultural History of Europeam Gothic Literature
ISBN: 9780745629155 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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281,24 |
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Cultural History of Europeam Gothic Literature
ISBN: 9780745629162 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,88 |
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Cover Stories (Routledge Revivals): Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller
ISBN: 9781138796249 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title tracks the spy thriller from John Buchan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carre, and shows how these tales of spies, moles, and the secret service tell a history of modern society, translating the political and cultural transformations of the twentieth century into the intrigues of a shadow world of secret agents.
This title tracks the spy thriller from John Buchan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carre, and shows how these tales of spies, moles, and the ...
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752,97 |
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