Mystery Fiction and Modern Life (Studies in Popular Culture)
Mystery Fiction and Modern Life (Studies in Popular Culture)
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This analysis of the genre shows that the fictional world portrayed by the mystery writer parallels the actual world of the reader. Because daily life is so implausible, readers willingly suspend disbelief as they are absorbed by the pages of detective fiction. This apparent unity of the fictional thriller and veritable circumstance produces a code of modernity that is the essence of the genre. In the light of this concept of modernity Mystery Fiction and Modern Life examines works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald, Tony Hillerman, Agatha Christie, Helen MacInnes, Patricia Cornwell, Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, Anthony Price, and others.
Mystery Fiction and Modern Life (Studies in Popular Culture),R. Gordon Kelly,University Press of Mississippi,157806032X,American fiction,Detective and mystery stories,,Detective and mystery stories, American,Detective and mystery stories, English,English-speaking countries,General,History and criticism,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature and society,Mystery & Detective Fiction,Popular Culture - General
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