Fiction, crime, and empire
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| Glavni autor: | Thompson, Jon (-) |
| Vrsta građe: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | eng |
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Urbana ; Chicago :
University of Illinois Press,
cop. 1993.
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Sadržaj:
- Introduction
- 1. Preliminary mappings: Modernism and genre fiction
- PART I. The emergence of the modern detective hero :
- 2. The power of knowledge: Poe's detective fiction and the ideology of rationalism
- 3. The adventurous detective: Conan Doyle and imperialism
- PART II. Empire and espionage: The '"great game" begins :
- 4. The heroic spy novel: 'Kim' and the rhetoric of the great game
- 5. The iconic spy novel: anarchy, irony, and empire in 'The secret agent'
- PART III. Modernists and detectives :
- 6. Modernism and the "search for a remoter something"
- 7. Popular modernisms
- PART IV. Postmodern crime fiction :
- 8. Agents and human agency in the postmodern world
- Conclusion: Postmodern fictions of crime