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11	From Holmes to Sherlock: Confession, Surveillance, and the Detective Ghosh, Arundhati 18 December 2013 (has links) No description available. British and Irish Literature American Literature Detective fiction Confession Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Hercule Poirot Philip Marlowe Arthur Conan Doyle Agatha Christie Raymond Chandler Paul Auster Orhan Pamuk The Black Book The Long Goodbye The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
12	Confronting eternity : strange (im)mortalities, and states of undying in popular fiction. Bacon, Edwin Bruce January 2014 (has links) When the meritless scrabble for the bauble of deity, they ironically set their human lives at the “pin’s fee” to which Shakespeare’s Hamlet refers. This thesis focuses on these undeserving individuals in premillennial and postmillennial fiction, who seek immortality at the expense of both their humanities, and their natural mortalities. I will analyse an array of popular modern characters, paying particular attention to the precursors of immortal personages. I will inaugurate these analyses with an examination of fan favourite series Immortality Undeath Undying Magic Science Pseudoscience Life Death Eternity God Alchemy Phoenix Popular Fiction Pop Culture William Shakespeare Hamlet Doctor Who The Doctor The Master Buffy the Vampire Slayer Gulliver's Travels Struldbrugg Jonathan Swift Sherlock Holmes Moriarty Arthur Conan Doyle Merlin The Once and Future King T.H. White The Mask Batman The Joker Scream Ghostface Saw The Jigsaw Killer Hanz Lungwitz Breaking Bad Walter White Heroes Sylar A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Emily Dickinson Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Roger Ebert Judith Butler J.R.R Tolkien Dylan Thomas Robert Louis Stevenson
13	A hidden life : how EAS (Era Appropriate Science) and professional investigators are marginalised in detective and historical detective fiction Dormer, Mia Emilie January 2017 (has links) This by-practice project is the first to provide an extensive investigation of the marginalisation of era appropriate science (EAS) and professional investigators by detective and historical detective fiction authors. The purpose of the thesis is to analyse specific detective fiction authors from the earliest formats of the nineteenth century through to the 1990s and contemporary, selected historical detective fiction authors. Its aim is to examine the creation, development and perpetuation of the marginalisation tradition. This generic trend can be read as the authors privileging their detective’s innate skillset, metonymic connectivity and deductive abilities, while underplaying and belittling EAS and professional investigators. Chapter One establishes the project’s critique of the generic trend by considering parental authors, E. T. A Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Émile Gaboriau and Wilkie Collins. Reading how these authors instigated and purposed the downplaying demonstrates its founding within detective fiction at the earliest point. By comparing how the authors sidelined and omitted specific EAS and professional investigators, alongside science available at the time, this thesis provides a framework for examining how it continued in detective fiction. In following chapters, the framework established in Chapter One and the theoretical views of Charles Rzepka, Lee Horsley, Stephen Knight and Martin Priestman, are used to discuss how minimising EAS and professional investigators developed into a tradition; and became a generic trend in the recognised detective fiction formula that was used by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Freeman Wills Crofts, H. C. Bailey, R. Austin Freeman, Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell and P. D. James. I then examine how the device transferred to historical detective fiction, using the framework to consider Ellis Peters, Umberto Eco and other selected contemporary authors of historical detective fiction. Throughout, the critical aspect considers how the trivialisation developed and perpetuated through a generic trend. The research concludes that there is a trend embedded within detective and historical detective fiction. One that was created, developed and perpetuated by authors to augment their fictional detective’s innate skillset and to help produce narratives using it is a creative process. It further concludes that the trend can be reimagined to plausibly use EAS and professional investigators in detective and historical detective fiction. The aim of the creative aspect of the project is to employ the research and demonstrate how the tradition can be successfully reinterpreted. To do so, the historical detective fiction novel A Hidden Life uses traditional features of the detective fiction formula to support and strengthen plausible EAS and professional investigators within the narrative. The end result is a historical detective fiction novel. One that proves the thesis conclusion and is fundamentally crafted by the critical research.

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