The art of detective fiction (Record no. 4893)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0333746015 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 809.3872 |
| Item number | ART |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The art of detective fiction |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York |
| Name of publisher | St. Martin`s Press |
| Year of publication | 2000 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xv,240p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | In the hands of many of the great writers, the unravelling of mystery is only one strand within a complex project. Other things get unravelled, too - the belief in a rationally explicable world, in the beneficent, ordering force of culture and civilization. Constantly the detective story delights in muddying the waters, in acknowledging the omnipresent possibilities of anarchy and carnage. As a genre, it is supremely able to combine popular appeal with the ability to disturb, provoke and challenge the reader. The essays in this volume all pay tribute to, and seek to account for, the astonishing durability of the detective story as a narrative genre. They range generously, taking a variety of theoretical approaches and including detective fiction in languages other than English, but particular attention is paid to the 'Golden Age' of English detective story-writing and to the 'hard-boiled' American version of the genre. This is a collection that will appeal to the scholar and to the devotee alike; to all those, in fact, who cannot resist the lure of finding out whodunit. |
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| Topical Term | Literature |
| 650 0# - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Literary texts |
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| Koha item type | BK |
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| Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 23/05/2014 | 809.3872 ART | 08544 | BK |