Detecting Detection
International Perspectives on the Uses of a Plot
1st Edition
Published on 14. June 2012
208 pages
978-1-4411-2812-6 (ISBN)
Description
We indulge our fascination with detection in many ways, only some of which occur in the detective story. In fact, modern fiction regularly uses elements of a detective narrative to tell another story altogether, to engage characters, narrators, and readers with questions of identity, with examinations of moral and ethical reasoning, with critiques of social and political injustices, and with the metaphysics of meaning itself. Detective plots cross cultural and national boundaries and occur in different ways and different genres. Taken together, they suggest important contemporary understandings of who and what we are, how and what we aspire to become.
Detecting Detection gathers writing from the UK, North and South America, Europe, and Asia to draw together instances of the detective plot in contemporary fiction. It is unique not only in addressing the theme-a recurring one in modern literature-but in tracking the interest in detectives and detection across international borders.
Detecting Detection gathers writing from the UK, North and South America, Europe, and Asia to draw together instances of the detective plot in contemporary fiction. It is unique not only in addressing the theme-a recurring one in modern literature-but in tracking the interest in detectives and detection across international borders.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-2812-6 (9781441128126)
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Persons
Peter Baker is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Towson University, Baltimore, USA. He is the author of three books, including Deconstruction and the Ethical Turn (University Press of Florida, 1995). He has also edited three volumes, including Onward: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (Peter Lang, 1996). With co-editors Rod Smith and Kaplan Harris, he is completing an edition of The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley, forthcoming in Fall 2011 with the University of California Press.
Deborah Shaller is Professor in the English Department at Towson University, Baltimore, USA. She directs the university's writing tutorial service, and lectures on popular literature, writing, and educational theory.
Deborah Shaller is Professor in the English Department at Towson University, Baltimore, USA. She directs the university's writing tutorial service, and lectures on popular literature, writing, and educational theory.
Content
Contributors
Editors' Introduction
1. The Detection Plot as a Means of Testimony in Ann-Marie MacDonald's The Way the Crow Flies
Heta Pyrhönen
2. Is The Savage Detectives A Detective Story?
Peter Baker
3. Detectivism as a Means of Resistance in Juan Marse's El embrujo de Shanghai
Anna-Maria Medina
4. Two Men Walk into a Bar
Michelle Robinson
5. Espionage and the War on Secrecy and Terror in Graham Greene and Beyond
Sofia Ahlberg
6. The Stories We All Tell: The Function of Language and Knowledge in Julia Kristeva's Novel Possessions
Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis
7. Zen Keytsch: Mystery Handymen with Dragon Tattoos
Sheng-Mai Ma
8. Knowing the Unknowable: Detecting Metaphysics and Religion in Crime Fiction
Kim Toft Hansen
9. African Initiation Narratives and the Modern Detective Novel
Amadou Koné
Editors' Introduction
1. The Detection Plot as a Means of Testimony in Ann-Marie MacDonald's The Way the Crow Flies
Heta Pyrhönen
2. Is The Savage Detectives A Detective Story?
Peter Baker
3. Detectivism as a Means of Resistance in Juan Marse's El embrujo de Shanghai
Anna-Maria Medina
4. Two Men Walk into a Bar
Michelle Robinson
5. Espionage and the War on Secrecy and Terror in Graham Greene and Beyond
Sofia Ahlberg
6. The Stories We All Tell: The Function of Language and Knowledge in Julia Kristeva's Novel Possessions
Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis
7. Zen Keytsch: Mystery Handymen with Dragon Tattoos
Sheng-Mai Ma
8. Knowing the Unknowable: Detecting Metaphysics and Religion in Crime Fiction
Kim Toft Hansen
9. African Initiation Narratives and the Modern Detective Novel
Amadou Koné
