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Florida Crime Writers: 24 Interviews
ISBN: 9780786430833 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines Florida crime novelists through interviews with several contemporary mystery writers, all of whom have based many of their stories in the Keys, Miami, the Everglades, or other locations throughout the state. Included are The Mango Opera s Tom Corcoran, Florida Roadkill s Tim Dorsey, and Wreckers Key s Christine Kling, among 21 others. Organized alphabetically, separate entries give a biographical sketch of each author before a transcript of each interview.
This book examines Florida crime novelists through interviews with several contemporary mystery writers, all of whom have based many of their stories ...
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167,43 zł |
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The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story
ISBN: 9780801854668 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Mystery to a Solution, John Irwin brilliantly examines the deeper significance of the analytical detective genre which Poe created and the meaning of Borges' efforts to -double- the genre's origins one hundred years later. Combining history, literary history, and practical and speculative criticism, Irwin pursues the issues underlying the detective story into areas as various as the history of mathematics, classical mythology, the double-mirror structure of self-consciousness, the anthropology of Evans and Frazer, the structure of chess, the mind-body problem, the etymology... In The Mystery to a Solution, John Irwin brilliantly examines the deeper significance of the analytical detective genre which Poe created an... |
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158,45 zł |
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Mayhem and Murder: Narative and Moral Issues in the Detective Story
ISBN: 9780802082671 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The detective story centres on unravelling two questions: whodunit? and who is guilty? In Murder and Mayhem, Heta Pyrhonen examines how these questions organize and pattern the genre's formal and thematic structures. Beginning with a semiotic reading of the detective as both code-breaker and sign-reader, Pyrhonen's theoretical analysis then situates the reader and the detective in parallel worlds - both use the detective genre's typical motifs in solving the crime, but do not employ the same narrative interpretations to do so. This difference is examined with the help of the familiar game... The detective story centres on unravelling two questions: whodunit? and who is guilty? In Murder and Mayhem, Heta Pyrhonen examines how these quest... |
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160,97 zł |
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Mysterium and Mystery : The Clerical Crime Novel
ISBN: 9780809318094 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A reprint of the first book on the topic of the cleric as a crime-solver in fiction. "Mysterium and Mystery "by William David Spencer is a primary reference of meticulous scholarship for anyone interested in mystery literature. "
A reprint of the first book on the topic of the cleric as a crime-solver in fiction. "Mysterium and Mystery "by William David Spencer is a primary ... |
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92,63 zł |
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The James Sallis Reader
ISBN: 9780809511549 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The POINT BLANK READER series is dedicated to introducing you to the finest novelists in the mystery and crime fiction genres in carefully selected volumes that each include a full length novel, selected shorter fiction and other writings by the author. JAMES SALLIS is the author of the acclaimed Lew Griffin series of detective novels, multiple collections of short fiction, essays, poems, musicology, a biography of Chester Himes, and several other books. This volume includes his novels DEATH WILL HAVE YOUR EYES and RENDERINGS, numerous short stories, poems, personal essays and articles on...
The POINT BLANK READER series is dedicated to introducing you to the finest novelists in the mystery and crime fiction genres in carefully selected vo...
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85,87 zł |
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Art in the Blood
ISBN: 9780809562794 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James Ellroy, Dan Brown, Ian Rankin, George Pelacanoes, Ken Bruen, Michael Connelly, Ridley Pearson . . . the roster of writers interviewed in these pages includes those who have won Edgar, Shamus, Anthony and Macavity awards. The interviews were conducted in person, or by phone, or both. Significantly, none of the interviews were placed before the authors for approval, massaging or tweaking of answers. The interviews were recorded on tape and are presented without rejuxtaposition or revision on the part of the novelists. This is how the writers spoke, what they said, casually, candidly and,...
James Ellroy, Dan Brown, Ian Rankin, George Pelacanoes, Ken Bruen, Michael Connelly, Ridley Pearson . . . the roster of writers interviewed in these p...
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141,82 zł |
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Ngaio Marsh: The Woman and Her Work
ISBN: 9780810859395 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1934, Ngaio Marsh's first novel, A Man Lay Dead, was published to critical acclaim. For the next fifty years, Marsh wrote more than 30 English detective novels, while simultaneously building a reputation as a distinguished director of Shakespearean theatre. She received the Crime Writers Association's Red Herrings Award in 1955 and was made a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1978. In 1948 Marsh was awarded an Office of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to literature and the theatre, and in 1967, she was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British...
In 1934, Ngaio Marsh's first novel, A Man Lay Dead, was published to critical acclaim. For the next fifty years, Marsh wrote more than 30 English dete...
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319,59 zł |
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Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism
ISBN: 9780812216769 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Metaphysical detective stories reveal much about the relation of modernism to postmodernism and of high to low literary culture. Detecting Texts makes an excellent case for the coherence and breadth of the genre. Its broad scope, clear writing, an
"Metaphysical detective stories reveal much about the relation of modernism to postmodernism and of high to low literary culture. Detecting Texts make...
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136,53 zł |
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Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction
ISBN: 9780813532028 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Detective fiction featuring white women and people of colorsuch as Barbara Neelys Blanche White and Walter Mosleys Easy Rawlinshas become tremendously popular. Although they are considered "light reading," mysteries also hold important cultural and social "clues." Much recent scholarly work has demonstrated that race is both a cultural fictionnot a biological realityand a central organizing principle of experience. Popular writers are likely to reflect the conventions of their own historical situations.In Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction, Maureen T. Reddy...
Detective fiction featuring white women and people of colorsuch as Barbara Neelys Blanche White and Walter Mosleys Easy Rawlinshas become tremendously...
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126,78 zł |
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Inspecting Jews: American Jewish Detective Stories
ISBN: 9780813533698 / Angielski / Miękka / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Laurence Roth argues that the popular genre of Jewish detective stories offers new insights into the construction of ethnic and religious identity. Roth frames his study with the concept of kosher hybridity to look at the complex process of mediation between Jewish and American culture in which Jewish writers voice the desire to be both different from and yet the same as other Americans. He argues that the detective story, located at the intersection of narrative and popular culture in modern America, examines the need for order in a disorderly society, and thus offers a...
In this book, Laurence Roth argues that the popular genre of Jewish detective stories offers new insights into the construction of ethnic and r...
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180,47 zł |
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Hard-Boiled Masculinities
ISBN: 9780816644346 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The persona of the American male in the period between the two world wars was characterized by physical strength, emotional detachment, aggressive behavior, and an amoral worldview. This ideal of a hard-boiled masculinity can be seen in the pages and, even more vividly, on the covers of magazines such as Black Mask, which shifted from Victorian-influenced depictions of men in top hats and mustaches in the early 1920s to the portrayal of much more overtly violent and muscular men. Looking closely at this transformation, Christopher Breu offers a complex account of how and why...
The persona of the American male in the period between the two world wars was characterized by physical strength, emotional detachment, aggressive beh...
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97,50 zł |
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Foul and Fair Play: Reading Genre in Classic Detective Fiction
ISBN: 9780820316222 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Foul and Fair Play" is an examination of classic detective fiction as a genre--an attempt to read a wide variety of texts by different authors as variations on a common and relatively tight set of conventions. Marty Roth covers the period from the "prehistory" of detective fiction in Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H. G. Wells up to the 1960s, which marked the end, he says, of the classical period--"the end of an extremely conservative paradigm." The detective fiction genre, as Roth defines it, includes analytic detective fiction,... "Foul and Fair Play" is an examination of classic detective fiction as a genre--an attempt to read a wide variety of texts by different authors as ... |
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256,39 zł |
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Detection and Its Designs: Narrative and Power in Nineteenth-Century Detective Fiction
ISBN: 9780821412237 / Angielski / Twarda / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Detective fiction is usually thought of as genre fiction, a vast group of works bound together by their use of a common formula. But, as Peter Thoms argues in his investigation of some of the most important texts in the development of detective fiction in the nineteenth century, the very works that establish the genre's formulaic structure also subvert that structure. Detection and Its Designs reads early detective fiction as a self-conscious form that is suspicious of the detective it ostensibly celebrates, and critical of the authorial power he wields in attempting to reconstruct the past...
Detective fiction is usually thought of as genre fiction, a vast group of works bound together by their use of a common formula. But, as Peter Thoms a...
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165,85 zł |
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Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
ISBN: 9780822325802 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sees hard-boiled crime fiction in relation to a changing literary marketplace and as an arena for conflicts about citizenship, class culture, and democracy during the New Deal.
Sees hard-boiled crime fiction in relation to a changing literary marketplace and as an arena for conflicts about citizenship, class culture, and demo...
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507,29 zł |
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Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
ISBN: 9780822325949 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Gumshoe America" Sean McCann offers a bold new account of the hard-boiled crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart of the fiction, he contends that mid-twentieth-century American crime writers used the genre to confront and wrestle with many of the paradoxes and disappointments of New Deal liberalism. For these authors, the same contradictions inherent in liberal democracy were present within the changing literary marketplace of the mid-twentieth-century United States: the competing claims of the elite versus...
In "Gumshoe America" Sean McCann offers a bold new account of the hard-boiled crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a ...
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156,09 zł |
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Sherlock Holmes by Gas Lamp: Highlights from the First Four Decades of the Baker Street Journal
ISBN: 9780823212217 / Angielski / Twarda / 421 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sherlock Holmes was still an undergraduate when Squire Trevor pointed out the direction of his future life's work, telling him that all the detectives of fact and of fancy would be children in your hands.His prediction was right on the mark: so it was then, and so it remains more than a century later. Never mind that Trevor's name wasn't really Trevor, or that Holmes hid the name of his university. Or perhaps you do mind, as so many have before you. It was such a like-minded group of people who got together in 1934 to found the world's first Sherlockian organization, The Baker Street...
Sherlock Holmes was still an undergraduate when Squire Trevor pointed out the direction of his future life's work, telling him that all the detectives...
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224,37 zł |
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Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman
ISBN: 9780826335111 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Talking Mysteries, " Tony Hillerman discusses his craft, including his approach to plot, characterization, and setting, and the wrinkles and twists that make his brand of fiction unique.
In "Talking Mysteries, " Tony Hillerman discusses his craft, including his approach to plot, characterization, and setting, and the wrinkles and twist...
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63,37 zł |
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Sherlock Holmes: In His Own Words and in the Words of Those Who Knew Him
ISBN: 9780878332977 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are many revelatory passages about the personal and professional lives of Sherlock Holmes spread throughout the array of Doyle's works. This work has arranged them like a biography in quotes of the personal life and public career of the famous detective.
There are many revelatory passages about the personal and professional lives of Sherlock Holmes spread throughout the array of Doyle's works. This wor...
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127,52 zł |
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Ten Women of Mystery
ISBN: 9780879721725 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume, which examines the special contributions of a number of women mystery writers, sheds light on this significant example of common interests in recreational reading among women and men and the reasons behind the early and continuing uncharacteristic near-equality of both sexes in this field of endeavor.
This volume, which examines the special contributions of a number of women mystery writers, sheds light on this significant example of common interest...
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92,63 zł |
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Dr. Joe Bell: Model for Sherlock Holmes
ISBN: 9780879721985 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A distinguished physician and professor of medicine at Edinburgh University, and a forensic expert for the British Crown, Joseph Bell was well known for his powers of observation and deduction. This biography of Bell is intended for those interested in Victorian medicine, in the history of detective fiction, and in Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
A distinguished physician and professor of medicine at Edinburgh University, and a forensic expert for the British Crown, Joseph Bell was well known f...
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102,39 zł |
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