Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Detective and mystery fiction – History and criticism'
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Cleveland, William. ""Why is Everyone So Interested in Texts?": The Shifting Role of the Reader in the Genre of Hard-boiled Fiction." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2007. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/ClevelandW2007.pdf.
Full text袁洪庚 and Honggeng Yuan. "From conventional to experimental: the makingof Chinese metaphysical detective fiction." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43894422.
Full textKindler, Jessica Claire. "Tokuya Higashigawa's After-Dinner Mysteries: Unusual Detectives in Contemporary Japanese Mystery Fiction." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1011.
Full textLeps, Marie-Christine. "The apprehension of criminal man, 1876-1913 : an intertextual analysis of knowledge production." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=76904.
Full textTrainin, Sarah Jean. "The rise of mass culture theory and its effect on golden age detective fiction." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2255.
Full textGriswold, Amy Herring. "Detecting Masculinity: The Positive Masculine Qualities of Fictional Detectives." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3971/.
Full textHoffman, Megan. "Women writing women : gender and representation in British 'Golden Age' crime fiction." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11910.
Full textHill, Lorna. "Bloody women : a critical-creative examination of how female protagonists have transformed contemporary Scottish and Nordic crime fiction." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27352.
Full textChan, Lit-chung, and 陳烈忠. "Sherlock Holmes, The secret agent, and ideas of justice." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31643462.
Full textKareno, Emma. "Sherlock's pharmacy : drugs in detective stories, 1860s to 1890s." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21824.
Full textMeyer, Deon. "'n Praktiese ondersoek na die struktuur van die speur- en spanningsroman met spesifieke verwysing na die werk van Michael Connelly, John le Carré, Ian Rankin, Lee Child en Frederick Forsyth." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1814.
Full textThe primary objective of this thesis is to explore and analyse the structure of the crime novel / thriller in a practical manner – and subsequently develop an equally pragmatic, broad and useful guide which would potentially be of value to both reader and author of the genres. This tight and reductive focus has one important consequence: It will more or less ignore traditional literary theory, but the one obviously excludes the other.
Saito, Satomi. "Culture and authenticity: the discursive space of Japanese detective fiction and the formation of the national imaginary." Diss., University of Iowa, 2007. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/145.
Full textMa, Chun-laam, and 馬鎮嵐. "Characterization of detective figure as a site of negotiation of modernism and postmodernism in the 21st century." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47055376.
Full textIstomina, Julia. "Property, Mobility, and Epistemology in U.S. Women of Color Detective Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429191876.
Full textTrotman, Tiffany Gagliardi, and n/a. "Eduardo Mendoza�s Ceferino series : spanish crime fiction and the carnivalesque." University of Otago. Department of Languages and Cultures, 2007. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070613.114325.
Full textLamontagne, Yves. "Une jambe à mon cou, roman ; suivi de Élaboration de caractéristiques visant la création d'un roman policier de série commercialisable." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq25638.pdf.
Full textTaylor, Judith Louise. "The specificity of Simenon : on translating 'Maigret'." Thesis, St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/713.
Full textPillainayagam, Priyanthan A. "The After Effects of Colonialism in the Postmodern Era: Competing Narratives and Celebrating the Local in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1337874544.
Full textBaraban, Elena V. "Russia in the prism of popular culture : Russian and American detective fiction and thrillers of the 1990s." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15156.
Full textErickson, Paul Joseph. "Welcome to Sodom: the cultural work of city-mysteries fiction in antebellum America." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1543.
Full textChigidi, Willie L. "The emergence and development of the Shona detective story as a fictional genre in Zimbabwean literature." Diss., 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16468.
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M.A. (African Languages)
"The multiplicity of the detective thriller as literary genre." 2003. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896108.
Full textThesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-138).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Abstract --- p.i
摘要 --- p.iii
Acknowledgements --- p.v
Introduction The Genre of Detective Thriller --- p.1
Chapter Chapter One --- The Figure in the Carpet: Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd --- p.33
Chapter Chapter Two --- """Thrillers are like life´ؤmore like life than you are"": Graham Greene's The Ministry of Fear" --- p.68
Chapter Chapter Three --- "Cultural and Metaphysical Mysteries: Paul Bowles's ""The Eye"" and Jorge Luis Borges's ""The Garden of Forking Paths""" --- p.99
Concluding Remarks --- p.127
Bibliography --- p.131
Maungedzo, Avhurengwi Edward. "The detective story in Venda : an analysis with special reference to Bono la mboni and Nwana wa mme anga." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23246.
Full textThe purpose of this research is to make a literary appreciation of the detective story in Tshivenda. Chapter 1 is the introductory chapter which discusses the aim of study, the definition of detective story, methodology, detective noels in Tshivenda, background information regarding the authors, summaries regarding selected novels and the scope of research. Chapter 2 is devoted to the plot structure of the two detective novels, and outlines the diegetic and meta-diegetic stories. The elements of mystery and dramatic irony are also discussed. Chapter 3 concentrates mainly on the setting of the two selected detective novels and its influence on the crimes committed, the lives of the characters and the tools that are used. Chapter 4 deals with the depiction of the victims, suspects and detectives in the selected detective stories. Chapter 5 concludes the study and summarises the main findings of the appraisal.
African Languages
M. A. (African Languages)
Mogale, Ngwako S. (Ngwako Simon) 1955. "The nature and development of the Northern Sotho detective narrative." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17473.
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D.Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)
Van, der Linde G. P. L. (Gerhardus Philippus Leonardus). "Cognitive rationality and indeterminism in the contemporary detective novel, with special reference to the work of Umberto Eco, Carlo Emilio Gadda and Stanislaw Lem." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16256.
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D.Litt. et Phil. (Theory of literature)
"A critical evaluation of D.N. Moloto's Tshipu e rile : ke lebelo as a detective novel." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14725.
Full textThe main aim of this study is to make a critical evaluation of the detective story, and to draw a line of demarcation between a detective and a crime story. This chapter is based on the theoretical arguments of different scholars. However, an extensive study needs to be done to come up with a clear and convincing difference between the two ...