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Fiction, Crime, and Empire
Jon Thompson
其他書名
Clues to Modernity and Postmodernism
出版University of Illinois Press, 1993
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Mystery & DetectiveLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheorySocial Science / Popular Culture
ISBN02520628099780252062803
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AStYlqL8pKsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Reading fiction from high and low culture together, Fiction, Crime, and Empire skillfully sheds light on how crime fiction responded to the British and American experiences of empire, and how forms such as the detective novel, spy thrillers, and conspiracy fiction articulate powerful cultural responses to imperialism. Poe's Dupin stories, for example, are seen as embodying a highly critical vision of the social forces that were then transforming the United States into a modern, democratic industrialized nation; a century later, Le Carré employs the conventions of espionage fiction to critique the exhausted and morally compromised values of British imperialism. By exploring these works through the organizing figure of crime during and after the age of high imperialism, Thompson challenges and modifies commonplace definitions of modernism, postmodernism, and popular or mass culture.