[PDF.26il] The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis

The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis

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 | #2703576 in Books |  2014-01-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x6.25 x.50l,.65 | File type: PDF | 216 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Great Analysis, Poorly Executed|By Andrew Bowles|This book is a must-read for any student of the genre(s). The analysis is insightful and well incorporated into historical context. The one caveat is that Brownson is a terrible writer, prone to the sorts of unintelligible, circuitous sentences that only a tenured professor would be self-absorbed enough to produce. This book requ|About the Author|Charles Brownson is a professor emeritus of Arizona State University. A book artist who produces unique handmade books and has written several detective stories, he lives in Tempe, Arizona.

This book begins with a history of the detective genre, coextensive with the novel itself, identifying the attitudes and institutions needed for the genre to emerge in its mature form around 1880. The theory of the genre is laid out along with its central theme of the getting and deployment of knowledge. Sherlock Holmes, the English Classic stories and their inheritors are examined in light of this theme and the balance of two forms of knowledge used in fictional detecti...

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