The Crime Novel : : A Deviant Genre / / Tony Hilfer.
Although rarely distinguished from the detective story, the crime novel offers readers a quite different experience. In the detective novel, a sympathetic detective figure uses reason and intuition to solve the puzzle, restore order, and reassure readers that "right" will always prevail. I...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Crime Novel: Guilt and Menace
- 2. Deviant Impulses: Incest and Doubling
- 3. Ontological Insecurities: Time and Space in the American Crime Novel
- 4. Devil or Angel: Fatal Passion in the American Crime Novel
- 5. Pale Criminals and Murderees: The Problem of Justice in the English Crime Novel
- 6. Civilization and Its Discontents: Simenon, Millar, Highsmith, and Thompson
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index