
Detecting Detection
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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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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
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
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