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Crime fiction has been a major element of Western culture for the last two centuries, but only recently have cultural critics undertaken the analysis how the many forms of crime fiction reveal the changing anxieties of audiences over time and the manifold ways in which psychic consolation can be offered in the form of a detective. This collection of essays by international scholars focuses on aspects of the development of the genre, in contributions by Stephen Knight and Peter Drexler, through to its most recent reformations in the feminist thriller, investigated by Irmtraud Maassen and Claire Gorrara. Expert light is cast on topics as elusive but important as Agatha Christie’s linguistic patterns (Friedrich Ungerer), the style deployed by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and their followers (Sonja Kleinke and Dirk Wiemann) and the use of chess as a focal motif in the form (Bernd-Peter Lange). Other essays range from Thomas De Quincey’s fascination with murder (Duncam Campell) to the very recent work set in Scotland by William McIlvanney (H. Gustav Klaus) and Wales by Bill James (Ian Bell). The Art of Murder thus provides a sense of the range and variation of the crime fiction genre over two hundred years, and also a carefully selected series of penetrating insights into the nature, causes and effects of murderous writing from its origins to the present. |
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