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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

Author	: Jim Holt
Publisher	: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date	: 2012-07-16
ISBN 10	: 9780871403278
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (32 users)

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Download or read book Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story written by Jim Holt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Washington Post Notable Non-Fiction of 2013 “I can imagine few more enjoyable ways of thinking than to read this book.”—Sarah Bakewell, New York Times Book Review, front-page review Tackling the “darkest question in all of philosophy” with “raffish erudition” (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This runaway bestseller, which has captured the imagination of critics and the public alike, traces our latest efforts to grasp the origins of the universe. Holt adopts the role of cosmological detective, traveling the globe to interview a host of celebrated scientists, philosophers, and writers, “testing the contentions of one against the theories of the other” (Jeremy Bernstein, Wall Street Journal). As he interrogates his list of ontological culprits, the brilliant yet slyly humorous Holt contends that we might have been too narrow in limiting our suspects to God versus the Big Bang. This “deft and consuming” (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) narrative humanizes the profound questions of meaning and existence it confronts.

A Comparative Study on the Translation of Detective Stories from a Systemic Functional Perspective

Author	: Yan Wang
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Release Date	: 2020-08-31
ISBN 10	: 9789811575457
Pages	: 217 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (754 users)

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Download or read book A Comparative Study on the Translation of Detective Stories from a Systemic Functional Perspective written by Yan Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a corpus-based investigation of verbal projection in detective stories and their translations. Adopting both diachronic and synchronic approaches to compare two different Chinese translations, the book is one of the first attempts to conduct a comprehensive lexico-grammatical, logico-semantic and rhetorical, as well as contextual analysis of verbal projection in the Chinese context, especially the classical Chinese language context. Further, it studies the differences and similarities of different translators’ choices from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives. Given its scope, the book is relevant for all those interested in functional linguistics, translation studies and detective stories.

Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World

Author	: Dr Marc Singer
Publisher	: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date	: 2013-04-28
ISBN 10	: 9781409475514
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (755 users)

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Download or read book Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World written by Dr Marc Singer and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking up a neglected area in the study of the crime novel, this collection investigates the growing number of writers who adapt conventions of detective fiction to expose problems of law, ethics, and truth that arise in postcolonial and transnational communities. While detective fiction has been linked to imperialism and constructions of race from its earliest origins, recent developments signal the evolution of the genre into a potent framework for narrating the complexities of identity, citizenship, and justice in a postcolonial world. Among the authors considered are Vikram Chandra, Gabriel García Márquez, Michael Ondaatje, Patrick Chamoiseau, Mario Vargas Llosa, Suki Kim, and Walter Mosley. The essays explore detective stories set in Latin America, the Caribbean, India, and North America, including novels that view the American metropolis from the point of view of Asian American, African American, or Latino characters. Offering ten new and original essays by scholars in the field, this volume highlights the diverse employment of detective fictions internationally, and uncovers important political and historical subtexts of popular crime novels.

H.C. Bailey’s Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction

Author	: Laird R. Blackwell
Publisher	: McFarland
Release Date	: 2017-07-07
ISBN 10	: 9781476629582
Pages	: 188 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (295 users)

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Download or read book H.C. Bailey’s Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction written by Laird R. Blackwell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  H.C. Bailey’s detective Reggie Fortune was one of the most popular protagonists of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fortune appeared in nine novels yet it was in a series of 84 short stories that were published from 1920 to 1940 where he truly shone, combining elements of several popular archetypes—the eccentric logician, the forensic investigator, the hard-boiled interrogator, the psychological profiler, the defender of justice. This critical study examines the Fortune stories in the context of other popular detective fiction of the era. Bailey’s classics are distinguished by well-clued puzzles, brilliant sleuthing, vivid description and social critique, with Fortune evoking images of Don Quixote and the Arthurian Knights in his pursuit of truth and justice in an uncaring world.

Detective Stories from the Bible

Author	: J. Ellsworth Kalas
Publisher	: Abingdon Press
Release Date	: 2009
ISBN 10	: 9781426702563
Pages	: 92 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (25 users)

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Download or read book Detective Stories from the Bible written by J. Ellsworth Kalas and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers can discover the secrets of hidden "life mysteries" found throughout the Bible in these 12 studies. (Biblical Studies)

Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction

Author	: Renée W. Craig-Odders
Publisher	: McFarland
Release Date	: 2006-03-06
ISBN 10	: 9780786424269
Pages	: 237 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (242 users)

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Download or read book Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction written by Renée W. Craig-Odders and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-03-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of the hard-boiled private investigator from gritty pulp fiction, a terse and mysterious figure, has become increasingly universal as the detective novel crosses more and more borders. A booming genre in Latin America, Spain and other Hispanic cultures, detective fiction has transcended the limitations of its influences. Hispanic authors relatively new to the genre have published novels and series popular with the public, while a number of well-known writers have adapted the genre to reflect the concurrent globalization of modern society and the crimes within it. This volume presents a compilation of 11 critical essays on genero negro--contemporary detective fiction in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian canon. Surveying the last twenty years, the text analyzes emerging trends in this rapidly evolving genre, as well as the mutations and innovations taking place within the style. The first section of the book is dedicated to the detective fiction of Spain and Portugal. The second section surveys works from Latin America and the United States, where topics touch on universal subjects like crime, identity and feminism.

New Perspectives on Detective Fiction

Author	: Casey Cothran
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2015-10-14
ISBN 10	: 9781317435242
Pages	: 264 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (352 users)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on Detective Fiction written by Casey Cothran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, examining the ways it shapes issues of social destabilization, moral ambiguity, reader complicity, intertextuality, and metafiction. Breaking new ground by moving beyond the critical preoccupation with classification of historical types and generic determinants, contributors examine the effect of mystery on literary forms and on readers, who experience the provocative, complex process of coming to grips with the unknown and the unknowable. This volume opens up discussion on publically acclaimed, modern works of mystery and on classic pieces, addressing a variety of forms including novels, plays, graphic novels, television series, films, and ipad games. Re-examining the interpretive potential of a genre that seems easily defined yet has endless permutations, the book closely analyzes the cultural function of mystery, the way it intervenes in social and political problems, as well as the literary properties that give the genre its particular shape. The volume treats various texts as meaningful subjects for critical analysis and sheds new light on the interpretive potential for a genre that creates as much ambiguity as it does clarity. Scholars of mystery and detective fiction, crime fiction, genre studies, and cultural studies will find this volume invaluable.

The Old Man in the Corner - Twelve Classic Detective Stories by the Author of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Author	: Baroness Orczy
Publisher	: Lulu Press, Inc
Release Date	: 2013-12-27
ISBN 10	: 9781291660746
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (67 users)

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Download or read book The Old Man in the Corner - Twelve Classic Detective Stories by the Author of the Scarlet Pimpernel written by Baroness Orczy and published by Lulu Press, Inc. This book was released on 2013-12-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created by Baroness Orczy, author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Old Man in the Corner was one of the earliest armchair detectives, popping up with so many others in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The Old Man relies mostly upon sensationalistic “penny dreadful” newspaper accounts, with the occasional courtroom visit for extra laughs. He narrates all this information (while tying complicated knots in a piece of string) to a Lady Journalist who frequents the same tea-shop.

The Figure of the Detective

Author	: Charles Brownson
Publisher	: McFarland
Release Date	: 2014-01-02
ISBN 10	: 9780786477692
Pages	: 217 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (776 users)

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Download or read book The Figure of the Detective written by Charles Brownson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 detection--cool or rational, and warm or emotional. The evolution of the genre formula is driven by changes in the social climate in which it is embedded. These changes explain the decay of the English Classic and its replacement by noir, hardboiled and spy stories, to end in the cul-de-sac of the thriller and the nostalgic Neo-Classic. Possible new forms of the detective story are suggested.

Cornell Woolrich and the Tough-Man Tradition of American Crime Fiction

Author	: Christine Photinos
Publisher	: McFarland
Release Date	: 2015-11-02
ISBN 10	: 9781476624761
Pages	: 8 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (247 users)

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Download or read book Cornell Woolrich and the Tough-Man Tradition of American Crime Fiction written by Christine Photinos and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, and with increasing frequency, Cornell Woolrich has been categorized as a member of the hard-boiled school of American crime fiction and one of its most important early practitioners. Objections to this categorization notwithstanding, Woolrich’s stories provide critical counterpoints to the work of his better-known contemporaries and to some of the taken-for-granted conventions of early hard-boiled crime fiction. This article originally appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 28, Issue 2.

The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism

Author	: Kevin J. H. Dettmar
Publisher	: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date	: 1996
ISBN 10	: 029915064X
Pages	: 300 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism written by Kevin J. H. Dettmar and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly three quarters of a century, the modernist way of reading has been the only way of reading Joyce - useful, yes, and powerful but, like all frameworks, limited. This book takes a leap across those limits into postmodernism, where the pleasures and possibilities of an unsuspected Joyce are yet to be found. Kevin J. H. Dettmar begins by articulating a stylistics of postmodernism drawn from the key texts of Roland Barthes, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Jean-Francois Lyotard. Read within this framework, Dubliners emerges from behind its modernist facade as the earliest product of Joyce's proto-post-modernist sensibility. Dettmar exposes these stories as tales of mystery, not mastery, despite the modernist earmarks of plentiful symbols, allusions, and epiphanies. Ulysses, too, has been inadequately served by modernist critics. Where they have emphasized the work's ingenious Homeric structure, Dettmar focuses instead upon its seams, those points at which the narrative willfully, joyfully overflows its self-imposed bounds. Finally, he reads A Portrait of the Artist and Finnegans Wake as less playful, less daring texts - the first constrained by the precious, would be poet at its center, the last marking a surprising retreat from the constantly evolving, vertiginous experience of Ulysses.

Best Detective Stories of the Year

Author	:
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1972
ISBN 10	: STANFORD:36105014825785
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.O/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book Best Detective Stories of the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Queer Roots for the Diaspora

Author	: Jarrod Hayes
Publisher	: University of Michigan Press
Release Date	: 2016-08-11
ISBN 10	: 9780472053162
Pages	: 341 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (531 users)

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Download or read book Queer Roots for the Diaspora written by Jarrod Hayes and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses comparative narratives to explore the dualism between marginalization and the desire for roots within a rooted identity

Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Fall 2020)

Author	: Janice M. Allan
Publisher	: McFarland
Release Date	: 2020-08-11
ISBN 10	: 9781476641454
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (414 users)

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Download or read book Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Fall 2020) written by Janice M. Allan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.

Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction

Author	: J. Randolph Cox
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1989
ISBN 10	: UOM:49015003032563
Pages	: 281 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction written by J. Randolph Cox and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, the mystery and detective story has been among the most popular forms of fiction in bookstores and libraries. Some writers (Edgar Allan Poe or Dashiell Hammett, for example) have attracted a considerable body of critical response; others have been the focus of less scrutiny. This bibliography is intended for the student, general reader, or mystery buff who needs some basic information about the mystery genre and its representative authors. Selective, rather than exhaustive, it serves as an introduction. Entries on the life and work of seventy-five writers from Margery Allingham, Raymond Chandler, and Amanda Cross to P.D. James, John D. MacDonald, Edgar Allan Poe, Ellery Queen, and Georges Simenon appear.

Crime Fiction

Author	: John Scaggs
Publisher	: Psychology Press
Release Date	: 2005
ISBN 10	: 0415318254
Pages	: 192 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (54 users)

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Download or read book Crime Fiction written by John Scaggs and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for all those studying crime fiction.

Conan Doyle, Detective

Author	: Peter Costello
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2012-10-25
ISBN 10	: 9781472103659
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book Conan Doyle, Detective written by Peter Costello and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book is based on a remarkable discovery: Sherlock Holmes's methods of deduction were actually those of his creator and used in order to solve real crimes; for Scotland Yard Holmes really did exist in the form of Conan Doyle. Author Peter Costello draws on new research to follow the tracks Conan Doyle left as he entered the real word of Sherlock Holmes; his fictional outpourings were the direct result of their author's hidden career as an amateur detective and criminologist