Contemporary American Crime Fiction

Bertens, Hans; D’haen, Theo

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“…As Roland (2010) demonstrated, the Golden Age presented crime fiction typically in a secluded country house or any locked room. The Golden Age fiction is characterized by the marginalizing of sex, vulgarity, and violence, which lead to forming the subgenre of cozy mystery (Bertens & D'haen, 2001). It has consistent features introduced in seriatim fashion such as discovering a body, facing a series of red herrings, finding clues to solve the puzzle, and the dénouement of "whodunit" (Rowland, 2010).…”

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“…Readers must be provided with linguistic clues from which the identity of the perpetrator of the crime should be induced before the detective or any other intelligent character solves the mystery in the dénouement stage in the final pages of the story. For this reason, crime fiction challenges the Vagueness and Withholding Information in Christie's (1926) Merzah (Ashley, 2002;Bertens & D'haen, 2001;Todorov, 1977).…”

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Vagueness and Withholding Information in Christie’s (1926) Detective Fiction The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Pragma-Stylistic Study

Merzah¹,

Abbas²

2020

AWEJ

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This study is intended to examine the deceptive strategies utilized in the well-renown Agatha Christie's (1926/2002) detective fiction The Murder of Roger Ackroyd to fill a gap in the literature by conducting a pragma-stylistic analysis of the novel. To do so, the researchers have set two objectives which are phrased as follows: firstly, examining the pragma-stylistic choices that are used to surface the deceptive strategies on the character-character level in the pre-dénouement stage and secondly, investigating the pragma-stylistic choices that are used to surface the deceptive strategies on the narrator-reader level in the pre-dénouement stage. The stylistic idiosyncrasies of Christie's Dr. Sheppard are carried out through an eclectic pragma-stylistic approach to expose his deceptive strategies for the fulfillment of his selfish ends. Therefore, the study at issue follows an eclectic conceptual framework which comprises Merzah and Abbas's deceptive principle (2020) and Chen's (2001) self-politeness, along with the stylistic effects achieved via the manipulation of such linguistic tools, to explore the two levels of discourse, namely, character-character level and narrator-reader level proposed by Black (2006). The qualitative analysis of the novel has exhibited that Dr. Sheppard is an expert deceiver who principally relies on indirect strategies, as he is cognizant of the power of what is insinuated but left unsaid.

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Vagueness and Withholding Information in Christie’s (1926) Detective Fiction The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Pragma-Stylistic Study

Merzah¹,

Abbas²

2020

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“…5 Just as critical work on detective fiction is prone to ignore, or even to forget, questions of national or ethnic origin, so also many national literary Companions or reference works either omit popular novelists altogether or notice crime fiction only in passing. 6,8,9 The discourse of detection is not that of post-colonial theory; for example, 'the ethnic detective' has meant somebody not from mainstream America.…”

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Racination and ratiocination: post-colonial crime

Morse¹

2005

European Review

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Crime fiction is currently one of the most globalized, most popular, and biggest-selling of commercial genres, but there has been almost no attempt to study it in relation to other kinds of post-colonial literature. There is no bibliography of crime writers as ‘post-colonial’, and no attempt to generalize about a body of fiction. This paper is a brief extract from work in progress, based on the books of over fifty Anglophone or Francophone authors who might be categorized as ‘post-colonial’ by birth or residence. I test post-colonial theory against crime fiction, to argue that strong generic conventions call into question some of that theory's received ideas. I consider two linked problems: first, so-called ‘colonial mimicry’ and its obverse, ‘ventriloquism’, because it seems to me a wrong turning in 20th-century criticism; and, second, the demand for new literatures which would create ‘national identities’. I argue that ‘mimicry’ makes no sense in the context of a strong popular genre, and that accusations of ‘colonial mimicry’ reinscribe the asymmetries of judgement they appear to attack. The possibility of imagined geopolitical units as identity-forming, especially in genres which are informed by social criticism, calls into question the demand for literature as a source of national identity.

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“…Compared with the American “hardboiled” tradition in which the detective is often confronted with a corrupt society incapable of restoration, “the British‐style Golden Age detective guarantees a reassuring return to a well‐ordered and closed universe” (Bertens and D'Haen 2).…”

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“…The denouement does not lead to the legal punishment of the murderer. However, it does leave the status quo intact—thus fulfilling Bertens and D'Haen's requirement that the detective “repair an individual violation of a social order”—in that the solution does not overturn the orderly line of succession for the Knight fortune.…”

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The Vanished Childand the Deconstruction of the Classic Detective

Batschelet

2007

The J of Popular Culture

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Contemporary American Crime Fiction

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Vagueness and Withholding Information in Christie’s (1926) Detective Fiction The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Pragma-Stylistic Study

Vagueness and Withholding Information in Christie’s (1926) Detective Fiction The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Pragma-Stylistic Study

Racination and ratiocination: post-colonial crime

The Vanished Childand the Deconstruction of the Classic Detective

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