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Profiling the American Detective
Georg Schmid
其他書名
Parker's Prose on the Coded Game of Sleuth and Rogue, and the Tradition of the Crime Story
出版Peter Lang, 2004
主題Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Collections & AnthologiesLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Mystery & Detective
ISBN36315260839783631526088
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pOytNAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Firmly anchored in literary and psychoanalytic theory, yet also combining an ironically essayistic style with scholarly profundity, this book reinserts the «mystery genre» in its framework of Western history and tradition. Exemplifying the arguments by systematic references to the «American Detective» par excellence, Robert B. Parker's Spenser, vistas are opened up to a remarkable oeuvre, while, at the same time, a whole popular genre is reevaluated. In addition, major Western ideals and notions are discussed which are arguably more clearly discernable in detective fiction than anywhere else, yet reach far beyond a mere genre and are of general relevance. The analysis of the delicacy and eminently entertaining qualities of detective fiction is nicely balanced with reflections on what literature means to us existentially.