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Schutt, Sita Annette. "French detection, English detectives : a comparative study on the emergence of the detective story." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/french-detection-english-detectives--a-comparative-study-on-the-emergence-of-the-detective-story(9cc97ad9-ee35-462f-ab90-ad1481166c9a).html.

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Sorfa, David. "Detective/text/critic." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18266.

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This thesis grapples with the curious relationship of the metaphors of detection and reading. Detective fiction is often seen as an enactment of reading, while the literary critic is often described in terms of detection, investigation and interrogation. The Introductory section discusses the implications that such a self-reflexive and reflecting involvement has for narrative, the self, logic and the very institution of academic literary criticism itself. The notion of a detective genre, and genre-criticism in general, is put into question by analysing the legal and coercive nature of a litera
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Molander, Danielsson Karin. "The dynamic detective : special interest and seriality in contemporary detective series /." Uppsala : [Uppsala universitet], 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39285060p.

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Connelly, Kelly C. "From Poe to Auster: Literary Experimentation in the Detective Story Genre." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/41668.

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English<br>Ph.D.<br>Two dominating lines of criticism regarding the detective novel have perpetuated the misconception that detective fiction before the 1960s was a static and monolithic form unworthy of critical study. First, critics of the traditional detective story have argued that the formulaic nature of the genre is antithetical to innovation and leaves no room for creative exploration. Second, critics of the postmodern detective novel have argued that the first literary experiments with the genre began only with post-World War II authors such as Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, and Paul Aust
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Idini, Antonio Giovanni 1958. "Detecting colonialism: Detective fiction in Native American and Sardinian literatures." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282702.

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This dissertation compares Native American and Sardinian literatures, focussing on literary renditions of detective stories, a recent development which has occurred in both literatures. The study is based on Procedura (1988), and Il terzo suono (1995), by Sardinian author Salvatore Mannuzzu; The Sharpest Sight (1992), Bone Game (1994), and Nightland (1996) by Choctaw-Cherokee-Irish writer Louis Owens. In both literatures the use of detective fiction embodies the authors' commentary regarding the discourse on colonization. Recurrent thematic features are the concern with history, notably the hi
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Guerra, Bruna Tella 1987. "Ressignificação da detective fiction em Los detectives salvajes, de Roberto Bolaño." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269979.

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Orientador: Francisco Foot Hardman<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T01:28:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Guerra_BrunaTella_M.pdf: 1281442 bytes, checksum: 03ca81a82ade5bc6bffa8816adb45df4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013<br>Resumo: A síntese deste trabalho é a ressignificação da detective fiction em Los detectives salvajes, de Roberto Bolaño. O ponto de partida são os vários textos do autor que têm a figura do detetive na intitulação, sendo esse apenas um dos vários aspectos que recorre
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Baptista, Marco Simão Valente. "Fernando Pessoa's detective fiction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0f959d62-d4a7-4aa7-9e63-c02e40c40f5b.

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In this thesis I set out to write the first in-depth study of Pessoa's detective stories. I approached this task in three steps: firstly, by tracing Pessoa's interest in the genre of crime fiction, his readings and influences. Secondly, by analysing the themes and structure of the Quaresma stories. Thirdly, by placing them in the context of Pessoa's written output. The first step is addressed in the first two chapters of the thesis, where I study the connections between Pessoa and Anglo-American detective fiction, as well as how he adapted foreign models to a Portuguese context. The second ste
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Lake, Darlene Margaret. "The detective as social critic : the Spanish and Mexican detective novel 1970-1995 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8312.

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Gillis, S. J. "Detecting fictions : resistance and resolution in the golden age detective novel." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341176.

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Jenner, Mareike. ""Follow the evidence"? : methods of detection in American TV detective drama." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/973dbcaf-5796-42c5-a044-b51252c91b66.

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This thesis deals with methods of detection i.e. the mode of investigation employed to catch a criminal in American detective dramas on television. It divides methods of detection into the categories of ‘rational-scientific’ and ‘irrational-subjective’. ‘Rational-scientific’ methods of detection are linked to the literary tradition of Golden Age fiction and suggest an analytical distance to the crime. ‘Irrational-subjective’ methods are linked to a hard-boiled tradition and suggest (often emotional) ‘closeness’ to the victim, suspects or witnesses. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, John
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Effron, Malcah. "If only this were a detective novel : self-referentiality as metafictionality in detective fiction." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/838.

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This thesis constitutes the first attempt to examine formally the use of self-referential forms in the detective genre. By focusing detective fiction’s self-referential invocation of the genre within its narratives, it explores the relation between generic boundaries and the boundaries between reality and fictionality. Because the self-referential moments in detective fiction maintain the realistic representation of the narrative frame, they unselfconsciously indicate the textuality of the detective form, so they never wholly expose the disjuncture associated with metafiction. This creates an
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Winkler, Tania Liselotte Lopez. "The detective of modern life." Thesis, Open University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.542456.

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Barker, Emily Jane. "American detective fiction : four transformations." Thesis, University of Essex, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485340.

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Geldenhuys, Emile Leonard. "The spectator as transtextual detective in the metaphysical detective films of David Lynch / E.L. Geldenhuys." Thesis, North-West University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9657.

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The filmic oeuvre of auteur director David Lynch has a reputation among average spectators as being too “difficult” to understand. In particular, the Lynch films Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive are considered by the average spectator to be devoid of any real meaning. Spectator theory provides insight into the structures through which spectators find or fail to find meaning in films. Spectator theory explains that the average spectator has a set of schemas for “reading” and understanding film, and that these schemas are shaped by the conventions of popular Hollywood cinema. The films of David
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Johanson, Teija. "Detecting Detective Fiction : The Complexity of Genre in Paul Auster’s City of Glass." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-25496.

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Coetzee, Liesel. "Detecting dominant discourses in selected detective fiction by Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24763.

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Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie were the most successful British women writers of their time. Christie and Blyton were contemporaries, living and writing in the United Kingdom during the first half of the twentieth century. This study takes into consideration these similarities in its examination of the depiction of dominant discourses in relation to emergent, alternative and oppositional discourses in their writing. This thesis suggests that while Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie offer alternatives to the dominant patriarchal discourses of the British Empire in the first half of the twentieth
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McGinley, Susan. "Detective Work in Tracing Animal Disease." College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622369.

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Simpson, Inga Caroline. "Lesbian detective fiction : the outsider within." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/20120/1/Inga_Simpson_Exegesis.pdf.

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Lesbian Detective Fiction: the outsider within is a creative writing thesis in two parts: a draft lesbian detective novel, titled Fatal Development (75%) and an exegesis containing a critical appraisal of the sub-genre of lesbian detective fiction, and of my own writing process (25%). Creative work: Fatal Development -- It wasn’t the first time I’d seen a dead body, but it didn’t seem to get any easier. -- When Dirk and Stacey discover a body in the courtyard of their Brisbane woolstore apartment, it is close friend and neighbour, Kersten Heller, they turn to for support. The police assume Stu
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Simpson, Inga Caroline. "Lesbian detective fiction : the outsider within." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/20120/.

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Lesbian Detective Fiction: the outsider within is a creative writing thesis in two parts: a draft lesbian detective novel, titled Fatal Development (75%) and an exegesis containing a critical appraisal of the sub-genre of lesbian detective fiction, and of my own writing process (25%). Creative work: Fatal Development -- It wasn’t the first time I’d seen a dead body, but it didn’t seem to get any easier. -- When Dirk and Stacey discover a body in the courtyard of their Brisbane woolstore apartment, it is close friend and neighbour, Kersten Heller, they turn to for support. The police assume Stu
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Marinkovic, Sladana. "Female detectives in modern detective novels : an analysis of Miss Marple and V. I. Warshawski." Thesis, University West, Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-1481.

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Tong, Stephen. "Training the effective detective : a case-study examining the role of training in learning to be a detective." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/14186/.

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This research seeks to understand the process of detective training and its contribution to the practice of crime investigation. A traditional focus upon the outcomes of the investigative process has proven contentious as it fails to provide evidence on which to base adequate assessment of the quality of detective work. Thus in the research I explore ways in which detective work is learned and the contribution that detective training makes to effective investigative practice by examining the process of crime investigation and the concept of effectiveness in this context. The research seeks to
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Meyer, Deon Meyer 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 /." Link to the online version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1111.

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Whalen, David Gerard. "The detective story and the political landscape." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24105.

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Moore, T. A. "Development of the outsider in detective fiction." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546338.

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Wright, Michelle. "Detective intuition : the role of homicide schemas." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.445963.

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Miskimmin, Esme. "Detective fiction, religion, and Dorothy L. Sayers." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.406822.

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Quinn, Kathleen Martina. "The evolution of detective fiction in Chile." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394595.

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Pittard, Christopher Allan. "Purity and genre : late Victorian detective fiction." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.437150.

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Wilkinson, Stephen. "Detective fiction in Cuban society and culture." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2000. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1671.

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The object of this thesis is to reach towards an understanding of Cuban society through a study of its detective fiction and more particularly contemporary Cuban society through the novels of the author and critic, Leonardo Padura Fuentes. The method has been to trace the development of Cuban detective writing and to read Padura Fuentes in the light of the work of twentieth century Western European literary critics and philosophers including Raymond Williams, Antonio Gramsci, Terry Eagleton, Roland Barthes, Jean Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Jean François Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard in order
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Stoecklein, Mary, and Mary Stoecklein. "Native American Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624574.

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Native American Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction examines a range of texts, most of them Native-authored, that utilize elements of a popular and accessible literary genre: the mystery, crime, and detective story. The examined texts convey how writers fuse tribally-specific cultural elements with characteristics of mystery, crime, and detective fiction as a way to, as I argue, inform all readers about Native American histories, cultures, and contemporary issues. Exploring how Native American writers approach the genre of mystery, crime, and detective fiction is critical, since it is a sub-
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Dormer, Mia Emilie. "A hidden life : how EAS (Era Appropriate Science) and professional investigators are marginalised in detective and historical detective fiction." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33257.

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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 detect
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Laredo, Jeanette A. "Reading the Ruptured Word: Detecting Trauma in Gothic Fiction from 1764-1853." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862792/.

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Using trauma theory, I analyze the disjointed narrative structure of gothic works from 1764-1853 as symptomatic of the traumatic experience. Gothic novels contain multiple structural anomalies, including gaps in experience that indicate psychological wounding, use of the supernatural to violate rational thought, and the inability of witnesses to testify to the traumatic event. These structural abnormalities are the result of trauma that characters within these texts then seek to prevent or repair via detection.
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Martin, Catherine Eloise. "Sam Spade as the detective next door: industry, culture, and class in post-war radio adaptations of hardboiled detective fiction." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12509.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University<br>The character of the hardboiled detective seems a strange programming choice for early American radio networks. Despite his considerable popularity in print and film in the 1930s and 1940s, the hardboiled detective's violence and cynicism about American social and economic structures directly countered the enthusiastic capitalism and consumerism promoted by the manufacturing corporations that sponsored most programming on the three major radio networks, NBC, CBS, and ABC. However, by the post-World War II period, all three networks prominently featured ser
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Schultz, Bryan J. "The portrayal of Switzerland and the role of the Swiss detective in the modern Swiss crime novel /." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79977.

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The primary objective of this M.A. thesis is to examine the portrayal of Switzerland and the role of the Swiss detective in the modern Swiss crime novel, with special focus on the works of three modern Swiss authors of different social status: Friedrich Glauser, Friedrich Durrenmatt and Hansjorg Schneider. While the crime novel is generally considered trivial entertainment for mass audiences within the realm of German literature, the case is somewhat different in Switzerland, a country with a small state mentality. The forthcoming analysis will demonstrate how these authors employ the c
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Brewer, Gaylord. "A detective in distress : Philip Marlowe's domestic dream /." Connect to resource, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1232644569.

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Pendrill, Michael Laurie. "A guilty satisfaction : detective fiction and the reader." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/40838/.

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The purpose of this thesis is to explore the reasons why readers choose to read detective fiction. Taking Thomas De Quincey's satirical identification of the aesthetic quality of murder, I look at Edgar Allan Poe's detective fiction to find a non-satiric version of the same argument that emphasises the balancing quality of the ethical to the aesthetic. W.H. Auden's essay “The Guilty Vicarage” offers an argument concerning the reader's position in relation to these opposite components. I explore the ways in which Auden's arguments build into Freud's understanding of guilt, daydreams, the moral
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Brewer, Gay. "A detective in distress : Philip Marlowe's domestic dream." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1232644569.

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Pokorný, Šimon. "Migrace a refaktorizace Netfox Detective na .NET 5." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-445486.

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Every second, there are many attempts to attack various entities on the Internet. This is why high-quality, fast, and up-to-date tools are needed to easily analyze network traffic. Netfox Detective is one of such tools. Specifically, it is used for forensic analysis of network communication. The aim of this work is to migrate Netfox Detective to the newest version of .NET platform (.NET 5), including refactoring with respect to user experience and correct use of software design patterns. This thesis deals not only with the migration itself, but is listing common mistakes programmers make along
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Sotelo, Susan B. "Chicano detective fiction: Hot sauce for the whodunit." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289955.

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Recent detective novels (1985-2001) of five Chicano authors, Rudolfo Anaya, Lucha Corpi, Rolando Hinojosa, Michael Nava and Manuel Ramos are analyzed in relationship to Anglo-American and British detective genres, Chicano literature and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Romanticism. The analysis focuses on Rudolfo Anaya's Shaman Winter, Lucha Corpi's Cactus Blood, Rolando Hinojosa's Partners in Crime, Michael Nava's Rag and Bone and Manuel Ramos' The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz. Chicano detective fiction draws from Anglo-American and British detective genre formulas and can be distinguished from the
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Leslie-McCarthy, Sage. "The Case of the Psychic Detective: Progress, Professionalisation, and the Occult in Psychic Detective Fiction from the 1880s to the 1930s." Thesis, Griffith University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365497.

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This thesis examines a little-known hybrid genre popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: psychic detective fiction. The stories that comprise this hybrid genre involve the rational investigation of supernatural phenomena. They have received relatively little critical attention due, in part, to their inability to fit comfortably in either the traditional “detective” or “ghost story” categories, in addition to the comparative obscurity of many of the writers. Typically, psychic detective narratives have been subsumed within the discourses of late Victorian “Gothic” criticis
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Приходько, Наталія Анатоліївна, Наталия Анатольевна Приходько, Nataliia Anatoliivna Prykhodko та Д. В. Возна. "Стилістичні особливості творів Джанет Іванович". Thesis, Вид-во СумДУ, 2010. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/16401.

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Сьогодні під назвою "детектив" об'єднуються книги, що не мають між собою нічого спільного і розраховані на читачів з дуже різними літературними запитами. Існування такого багатозначного та невизначеного терміна, яким є сьогоденний "детектив без берегів", ймовірно вигідний видавництвам та торгівлі, але читач залишається при цьому без будь-яких орієнтирів і йому залишається покладатися на випадок. При цитуванні документа, використовуйте посилання http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/16401
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Stone, Lelia M. "A Textual Analysis of the Closer and Saving Grace: Feminist and Genre Theory in 21St Century Television." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc407774/.

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Television is a universally popular medium that offers a myriad of choices to viewers around the world. American programs both reflect and influence the culture of the times. Two dramatic series, The Closer and Saving Grace, were presented on the same cable network and shared genre and design. Both featured female police detectives and demonstrated an acute awareness of postmodern feminism. The Closer was very successful, yet Saving Grace, was cancelled midway through the third season. A close study of plot lines and character development in the shows will elucidate their fundamental differenc
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Griswold, 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/.

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Detective fiction highlights those qualities of masculinity that are most valuable to a contemporary culture. In mysteries a cultural context is more thoroughly revealed than in any other genre of literature. Through the crimes, an audience can understand not only the fears of a particular society but also the level of calumny that society assigns to a crime. As each generation has needed a particular set of qualities in its defense, so the detective has provided them. Through the detective's response to particular crimes, the reader can learn the delineation of forgivable and unforgivable act
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Dzirkalis, Anna M. "Investigating the female detective : gender paradoxes in popular British mystery fiction, 1864-1930 /." View abstract, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3287860.

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Griswold, Amy Herring Simpkins Scott. "Detecting masculinity the positive masculine qualities of fictional detectives /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3971.

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Ma, 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.

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Schiller, Beate. "Between afrocentrism and universality : detective fiction by black women." Master's thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2004. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2005/547/.

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This paper focuses on mysteries written by the Afro-American women authors Barbara Neely and Valerie Wilson Wesley. Both authors place a black woman in the role of the detective - an innovative feature not only in the realm of female detective literature of the past two decades but also with regard to the current discourse about race and class in US-American society.<br><br> This discourse is important because detective novels are considered popular literature and thus a mass product designed to favor commercial instead of literary claims. Thus, the focus is placed on the development of the tw
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Mason, David Charles. "Investigating Turkey: detective fiction and Turkish nationalism, 1928-1950." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=96737.

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After extensive study of the Ottoman Empire, one notes that the historiographyfocuses on events from the perspective of the sultan and/or the elites. This should comeas no surprise as this has historically been the case. However, I felt an urge to know moreabout the lives and histories of the general population. In addition to this interest, I hold along-standing interest in propaganda in popular culture. Concepts of Turkish nationalismwere expounded by the elite in a top-down effort to rally the population of Anatolia toprotect their homeland from the impending attempt by European powers to c
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Kareno, Emma. "Sherlock's pharmacy : drugs in detective stories, 1860s to 1890s." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21824.

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This work examines the significance of drugs in Victorian stories of detection through a selection of detective fiction published between the years 1860 and 1890. The main purpose of the work is to show how these texts make a specific link between drugs and detection, and use this link to engage themselves in questions concerning reading and the consumption of fiction. I wish to argue, first, that drugs play a significant role in Victorian detective stories as a device to produce a sense of mystery and excitement in these texts. Secondly, I shall hope to show how this is achieved especially by
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Hadley, Mary. "New directions in crime : innovative British female detective writers." Thesis, University of Reading, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394125.

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