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Postmodern Detective Fiction(Session 2017-18)
U22470 | Level 7
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Seminar Reading (24 items)
Week 1: Introduction (2 items)
Primary Reading (1 items)
Extracts from texts by Merivale and Sweeney, Holquist, Irwin, McHale, Eco.
Secondary Reading (1 items)
Whodunit and Other Questions: Metaphysical Detective Stories in Post-War Fiction -Michael Holquist, 1971
Article | Electronic resource | Print copy available
Week 2: Edgar Allan Poe, the Dupin Tales (2 items)
Primary Reading (1 items)
The murders in the Rue Morgue and other stories - Poe, Edgar Allan, 2002Book | You need to read: ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ (1841), ‘The Mystery of Marie
Rôget’ (1842) and ‘The Purloined Letter’ (1845)
Secondary Reading (1 items)
Mysteries We Reread, Mysteries of Rereading: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic DetectiveStory; Also Lacan, Derrida, and Johnson - John T. Irwin, 1986
Article | Electronic resource
Week 3: Jorge Luis Borges’ Detective Parodies (2 items)
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Primary Reading (1 items)
Collected fictions - Borges, Jorge Luis, 1999Book | You should read: 'The Garden of Forking Paths' (1941), 'Death and the Compass'
(1942), 'Ibn-Hakan al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth' (1951)
Secondary Reading (1 items)
Mysteries We Reread, Mysteries of Rereading: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic DetectiveStory; Also Lacan, Derrida, and Johnson - John T. Irwin, 1986
Article | Electronic resource
Week 4: Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy (4 items)
Primary Reading (1 items)
The New York trilogy - Auster, Paul, 1987Book
Secondary Reading (3 items)
Nothing to Go on: Paul Auster's "City of Glass" - William G. Little, 1997Article | Electronic resource | Print copy available
Work of the Detective, Work of the Writer - Jeffrey T. NealonChapter | Electronic resource
Work of the Detective, Work of the Writer - Jeffrey T. NealonChapter
Week 5: Haruki Murakami, Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of theWorld (2 items)
Primary Reading (1 items)
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world - Murakami, Haruki, 2003Book
Secondary Reading (1 items)
Postmodernism and Genre Fiction as Deferred Action: Haruki Murakami and the NoirTradition - Hantke, Steffen, 2007
Article | Electronic resource | Print copy available in Reserve Stock
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Week 6: Possible Worlds (2 items)
Primary Reading (1 items)
Possible Worlds - Robert Lepage, IMDb, 2000Webpage
Secondary Reading (1 items)
Cyborg brain in Robert Lepage's Possible Worlds - S. Bissonnette, 2009Article | Electronic resource
Week 7: Don DeLillo, Point Omega (2 items)
Primary Reading (1 items)
Point Omega: a novel - DeLillo, Don, 2011Book
Secondary Reading (1 items)
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter BenjaminBook
Week 8: Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor (2 items)
Primary Reading (1 items)
Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd, 2013Book
Secondary Reading (1 items)
Murder in Jest: Serial Killing in the Post-Modern Detective Story - David Richter, 1989Article | Print copy available
Week 9: Iain Sinclair, White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (4 items)
Primary Reading (2 items)
The redemptive past in the neo-Victorian novel - Dana Shiller, 1997Article | Electronic resource
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Walking in The Literary Necropolis: Ian Sinclair’s Overwritings of the Dead - John SearsArticle | Electronic resource
Secondary Reading (2 items)
Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies - Swansea UniversityJournal | Electronic resource
The Literary London Society: Homepage - The Literary London Society, 2013Website
Week 10: Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, From Hell (2 items)
Primary Reading (2 items)
From hell: being a melodrama in sixteen parts - Moore, Alan, Campbell, Eddie, Mullins,Pete, 2000
Book
From hell - Coltrane, Robbie, Holm, Ian, Depp, Johnny, Graham, Heather, 2002Audio-visual document
Additional Indicative Reading (38 items)The following texts are in the University library. There is also a large number of relevanttexts available via ebrary and JSTOR
Borges and his successors: the Borgesian impact on literature and the arts - Aizenberg,Edna, 1990
Book
A counter-history of crime fiction: supernatural, Gothic, sensational - Ascari, Maurizio, 2007Book
Who killed Roger Ackroyd?: the murderer who eluded Hercule Poirot and deceived AgathaChristie - Bayard, Pierre, 2000
Book
Popular fiction: technology, ideology, production, reading - Bennett, Tony, 1990Book
Essays on detective fiction - Benstock, Bernard, 1983Book
The sign of three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce - Eco, Umberto, Sebeok, Thomas A., 1984Book
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The roman noir in post-war French culture: dark fictions - Gorrara, Claire, 2003Book
Multicultural detective fiction: murder from the "other" side - Gosselin, Adrienne Johnson,1999
Book
Contemporary fiction and the uses of theory: the novel from structuralism topostmodernism - Greaney, Michael, 2006
Book
Deviance in contemporary crime fiction - Gregoriou, Christiana, 2007Book
Murder for pleasure: life and times of the detective story - Haycraft, Howard, Blake,Nicholas, 1942
Book
The mystery to a solution: Poe, Borges, and the analytic detective story - Irwin, John T.,1994
Book
Borges' esoteric library: metaphysics to metafiction - Jaen, Didier T., 1992Book
Contemporary feminist historical crime fiction - Johnsen, Rosemary Erickson, ebrary, Inc,2006
Book | Electronic resource
Form and ideology in crime fiction - Knight, Stephen, 1980Book
Agatha Christie: investigating femininity - Makinen, Merja, ebrary, Inc, 2006Book | Electronic resource
Agatha Christie: investigating femininity - Makinen, Merja, 2006Book
Detecting texts: the metaphysical detective story from Poe to postmodernism - Merivale,Patricia, Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth, ebrary, Inc, 1999
Book | Electronic resource
Detecting texts: the metaphysical detective story from Poe to postmodernism - Merivale,Patricia, Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth, 1999
Book
The novel and the police - Miller, D. A., 1988Book
The contemporary American crime novel: race, ethnicity, gender, class - Pepper, Andrew,2000
Book
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Twentieth-century crime fiction: gender, sexuality and the body - Plain, Gill, 2001Book
The pursuit of crime: art and ideology in detective fiction - Porter, Dennis, 1981Book
Crime fiction: from Poe to the present - Martin Priestman, 2013Book | Earlier edition available
Poe and the Theory of the Letter - Jean-MichelRabate
Chapter
Foul & fair play: reading genre in classic detective fiction - Roth, Marty, 1995Book
Detective fiction - Rzepka, Charles J., 2005Book
Crime fiction - Scaggs, John, 2005Book
True crime: observations on violence and modernity - Seltzer, Mark, 2007Book
The Detective and the Boundary: Some Notes on the Postmodern Literary Imagination -William Spanos
Chapter | Same chapter also in: Postmodernism: A Reader by Patricia Waugh, pp. 78-87,and Postmodernism and the Contemporary Novel by Bran Nicol, pp. 169-185
Bloody murder: from the detective story to the crime novel - Symons, Julian, 1993Book | Earlier edition available
From the Doomed Detective (1984) - Stefano TaniChapter
Detective fiction and the rise of forensic science - Thomas, Ronald R., 1999Book
The Typology of Detective Fiction - Tzvetan TodorovChapter
The world that is the book: Paul Auster's fiction - Varvogli, Aliki, ebrary, Inc, 2001Book | Electronic resource
The world that is the book: Paul Auster's fiction - Varvogli, Aliki, 2001Book
Intertextuality in 'Oranges are Not the Only Fruit' - Tess CosslettChapter
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It was the Mark of CainChapter
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