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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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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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Wallis-Martin, Julia Wallis-Martin Julia. "Crime fiction and the publishing market /." St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/710.

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Trott, Sarah Louise. "The detective as veteran : the trauma of war in the work of Raymond Chandler." Thesis, Swansea University, 2010. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42370.

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Raymond Chandler created his detective Philip Marlowe not as the idealisation of heroic individualism as is commonly perceived, but instead as an authentic individual subjected to very real psychological frailties resulting from his traumatic experiences during World War One. Marlowe's characterisation goes beyond the traditional chivalric readings and should instead be interpreted as an authentic representation of a traumatised veteran in American society. Substituting the horror of the trenches for the corruption of the city. Chandler's disillusioned protagonist and his representation of an uncaring American society resonate strongly with the dislocation of the Lost Generation. Consequently, it is profitable to consider Chandler not simply as a generic writer but as a genuine literary figure. This thesis re-examines important primary documents highlighting extensive discrepancies in existing biographical narratives of Chandler's war experience, and unveils an account that is significantly different from that of his biographers, revealing the trauma that troubled Chandler throughout his life. The application of psychological behavioural interpretation to interrogate Chandler's novels demonstrates the variety of post-traumatic symptoms that tormented both Chandler and his protagonist. A close reading of his personal papers reveals the psychological symptoms of PTSD that were subconsciously encoded into Marlowe's characterisation. Marlowe can only be understood a character shaped by Chandler's own experiences. This conflation of the hard-boiled style and war experience has influenced many contemporary crime writers, particularly in the traumatic aftermath of the Vietnam War. The sum of this work offers a new understanding of Chandler's traumatic war experience, how that experience established the traditional archetype of detective fiction, and how this reading of his work allows Chandler to transcend generic limitations to be recognised as a key twentieth century literary figure.

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Nuñez, Gabriela. "Investigating La Frontera : transnational space in contemporary Chicana/o and Mexican detective fiction /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3286241.

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Nelson, Colby David. "Literary investigations of modern American crime narratives /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9349.

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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.

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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 conscience, jokes, the uncanny and the death drive, and how these can be applied to the genre to help illustrate the reader's experience. Concurrent to this I offer an analysis of how the parallel developments in literary theory, particularly those of Barthes and Shklovsky, can be incorporated to enrich the understanding of these Freudian positions within the modern reader's experience. It is my intention to open up a field of study within the genre that differs from the traditional Marxist approach. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of the experience of pleasure found when moments of commonality between the aesthetic and the ethical are reached– how these are often unsatisfactory– necessitating a repetition of the literary experience. It is my argument that such an approach to the reader's position within the genre has not been explored in such a detailed fashion, centring as it does upon the active role of guilt in pleasure felt by the reader as the motivation to repeat. To illustrate that this is an argument that is applicable to different historical phases of detective fiction the study undertakes analysis of the following authors: Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Graham Greene and John Fowles.

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Yuan, Honggeng. "From conventional to experimental : the making of Chinese metaphysical detective fiction /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21556398.

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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 presenting detection as having the drug-like qualities of intoxication and addiction. And thirdly, I shall examine how this particular characterisation of detection evokes a conception of detective fiction as a drug and invites the reader to consider her experience of reading in terms of an experience of drugs. In short, drugs, in these narratives, do not appear as a mere theme or a plot element, but can be seen to affect the very narrative form and structure of the fiction.

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Wouters, Els. "Roman policier et inférence : une étude philosophique, sémiotique et rhétorique de l'inférence logique dans le roman policer classique francophone et anglophone entre 1841 et 1945 /." Online version, 2001. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/28328.

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Smillie, Rachel Jane. "The lady vanishes : women writers and the development of detective fiction." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=225765.

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The history of detective fiction has frequently centred on three key figures: Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle. These writers hold a privileged place in the canon of detective fiction and represent key sites in a linear narrative of development which has often overlooked the complexity and variability of the detective genre. This dissertation explores the disappearance of female writers from the critical history of detective fiction. Focusing on the mystery and detective narratives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, LT Meade, Baroness Emmuska Orczy and CL Pirkis, this project aims to restore these overlooked authors to critical view. As this dissertation will argue, the erasure of these writers (among others) from critical histories of detective fiction has led to studies of the genre being based on a limited data set. This unstable foundation has resulted in a number of problematic assumptions about the nascent detective genre; namely, that it is conservative, prescriptive and phallocentric. By exploring the work of overlooked and forgotten writers, this project aims to explore the paradigms which have governed their disappearance; at the same time, this dissertation will examine established critical models and interrogate entrenched assumptions and approaches to detective fiction. Chapter one explores the figure of the female servant as household spy in Braddon's novels and considers her role in opposition to Braddon's male detectives. Chapter two focuses on the collaboratively-authored crime fiction of LT Meade; in particular, it addresses the battle for narrative agency and control which occurs in her texts and examines the breakdown of gender and genre roles. Chapter three considers Orczy's work in the context of the anxiety of the author and explores the potentially restrictive nature of genre fiction. Finally, chapter four addresses CL Pirkis's detective fiction alongside her work in other genres and uses these texts to interrogate traditional models of detective fiction.

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Martella, Gianna María. "Spanish American detective and crime fiction : the question of the other /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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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." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1814.

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Thesis (MA (Afrikaans and Dutch))--University of Stellenbosch, 2005.
The 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.

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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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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.

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Chino, Noriko. "Miyabe Miyuki's place in the development of Japanese mystery fiction." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1230340838.

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Wallis-Martin, Julia. "Crime fiction and the publishing market." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/710.

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The thesis is mainly a substantial part of a crime novel, the title of which is 6, Vermillion Crescent. In that novel, a girl of 14 is murdered by her foster brother. On his release from prison, the former foster child goes in search of his victim’s mother with the intention of murdering her for betraying and abandoning him. The idea for the novel was sparked by events that occurred over 18 years ago, and coincided with the publication of my first novel. There have been a number of changes within the publishing industry since then, and in the critical piece accompanying the novel extract, I explain the most significant of these changes. The critical piece includes a detailed synopsis of 6, Vermillion Crescent.

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Reis, Murilo Eduardo dos. "Caracterização do romance policial em Rubem Fonseca /." Araraquara, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/154065.

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Orientador: Maria Célia de Moraes Leonel
Banca: Márcio Scheel
Banca: Sylvia Helena Telarolli de Almeida Leite
Resumo: O tema do trabalho é a caracterização do romance policial de Rubem Fonseca, tendo em vista a importância desse gênero em sua obra. O objetivo é verificar, em três livros do autor, o modo como ele se apropria de recursos clássicos desse tipo de composição, trazendo ou não contribuição para o gênero em pauta. O corpus é composto pelos romances O caso Morel, de 1973, A grande arte, de 1983, e Agosto, de 1990. Para a concretização da proposta, realizamos análise detida de cada livro em particular. A história, as personagens, a narração, a focalização, bem como o espaço e o tempo, serão objeto de exame com o intuito de se estabelecer a maneira como, atuando organicamente ou não, tais elementos constituem romances que são classificados como policiais. Entre tais componentes, no que se refere à história, levantamos e analisamos a menção a um homicídio já realizado, cujo autor deve ser descoberto na sequência da narrativa, e o leitor acompanha as investigações. No que diz respeito às personagens, é examinada a presença de detetives, delegados, policiais, advogados, etc., como também a sua caracterização superficial ou mais profunda. Para que os objetivos sejam atingidos, é fundamental a investigação das figuras do narrador (quem fala) e do focalizador (quem vê). O espaço social e a ambientação construída na obra também serão levados em conta, bem como a representação ou não de determinado período histórico do país. Além dos livros pertencentes ao corpus, há inserções relativas a obra... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: The theme of the work is the characterization of Rubem Fonseca's detective novel, considering the importance of this genre in his work. The objective is to verify, in three books by the author, the way in which he appropriates classical resources of this type of composition, whether or not making a contribution to the genre in question. The corpus is composed by the novels O caso Morel (1995), A grande arte (1990) and Agosto (1990). For the purpose of the proposal, we carry out a detailed analysis of each book in particular. History, characters, narration, focus, as well as space and time, will be examined in order to establish how, acting organically or not, such elements constitute novels that are classified as criminal. Among such components, as far as history is concerned, we raise and analyze the mention of a homicide already made, whose author must be discovered following the narrative, and the reader accompanies the investigations. With regard to the characters, the presence of detectives, delegates, police officers, lawyers, etc., is examined, as well as their superficial or deeper characterization. In order for the objectives to be achieved, it is fundamental to investigate the figures of the narrator (who speaks) and the focus (who sees). The social space and the atmosphere built in the work will also be taken into account, as well as the representation or not of a certain historical period of the country. In addition to the books belonging to the corpus, there are ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Beasley, Carolyn. "The fingerprint thief a crime novel and exegesis /." Swinburne Research Bank, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/66861.

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Thesis (PhD) - [Higher Education Division - Lilydale], Swinburne Institute of Technology, 2009.
Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, [Higher Education Division - Lilydale], Swinburne University of Technology, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-371)

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Taylor, Leslie Charles. "The Greatest is Love." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3661.

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THE GREATEST IS LOVE is a collection of ten short stories showing the painful manifestations of romantic relationships in the lives of contemporary American characters from many walks of life. As in the stories of D.H. Lawrence, these characters are often driven towards what may be bad for them, finding that love overrides their rational thoughts. In “The Mechanic” a woman whose legal career has left her isolated becomes irresistibly attracted to her friend’s ex-husband. Three stories center on one character, Charles, whose early failures both in college and at work lead him to become a detective, only to be tempted to betray his new calling by a woman who leads him astray. As in Italo Calvino’s Difficult Loves, the stories in THE GREATEST IS LOVE combine the pain and comedy of passion. Even when it is challenging, love offers characters irresistible glimmers of hope.

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Still, Katie. "The Mystery of the Body: Embodiment in the Nancy Drew Mystery Series." unrestricted, 2009. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07302009-145625/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2009.
Title from file title page. Megan Sinnott, committee chair; Sarah Gardner, Meg Harper, Amira Jarmakani, Julie Kubala, committee members. Description based on contents viewed Feb. 11, 2010. Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-80).

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Chan, 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.

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McGee, Chris Susina Jan. "The mysterious childhood from the Hardy boys to Harry Potter /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3128282.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2004.
Title from title page screen, viewed Oct. 15, 2004. Dissertation Committee: Jan Susina (chair), Christopher Breu, Sally E. Parry. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-181) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Kindler, 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.

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The detective fiction (tantei shōsetsu) genre is one that came into Japan from the West around the time of the Meiji Restoration (1868), and soon became wildly popular. Again in recent years, detective fiction has experienced a popularity boom in Japan, and there has been an outpouring of new detective fiction books as well as various television and movie adaptations. It is not a revelation that the Japanese detective fiction genre, while rife with imitation and homage to Western works, took a dramatic turn somewhere along the line, away from celebrated models like Poe, Doyle, and Christie, and developed into a unique subgenre of Japanese prose. However, despite its popularity and innovation, Japanese detective fiction has often been categorized as popular literature (taishū bungaku), which is historically disregarded as vulgar and common. My thesis first consists of a brief introductory history oftantei shōsetsugenre in Japan. This includes a discussion of Japanese writers' anxiety concerning imitation of Western forms and their perception of themselves as imposters and imitators. Following this, I examine the ways in whichtantei shōsetsuwriters--particularly Edogawa Ranpo (1894 - 1965), the grandfather of the genre in Japan--began to deviate from the Western model in the 1920's. At the same time, I investigate the bias againsttantei shōsetsuas a vulgar or even pornographic genre. Through a discussion of literary critic Karatani Kōjin's ideas on the construction of depth in literature, I will demonstrate how Edogawa created, through his deviance from the West, a new kind of construction in detective fiction to bring a different sort of depth to what was generally considered merely a popular and shallow genre. This discussion includes a look at the ideas of Tsubouchi Shōyō on writing modern novels, and Japanese conceptions of "pure" (junsui) and "popular" (taishū) literature. Through an examination of several of Edogawa's works and his use of psychology in creating interiority in his characters, I propose that the depth configuration, put forth by Karatani in his critique of canonical modern Japanese literature, is also present in popular fiction, like Edogawa'stantei shōsetsu. When viewed through the lens of Karatani's depth paradigm, we discover how detective fiction and the vulgarity therein may actually have more in common with "pure" fiction created by those writers who followed Shōyō's prescriptions. In the final section of the introduction, I propose a definition of Japanese detective fiction that links Edogawa's works from the 1920's to the contemporary Japanese detective novel After-Dinner Mysteries (Nazotoki wa dinaa no ato de, 2010), by Higashigawa Tokuya. Thus we see that many of the themes and conventions present in Edogawa remain prevalent in contemporary writing. Finally, I present my translation of the first two chapters of After-Dinner Mysteries.

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Lamontagne, 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.

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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 crime novel as an educational device to convey a very important message to their fellow countrymen about the society in which they live. In their portrayal of Switzerland, the authors cover a wide range of circumstances relevant to their respective time periods, often dealing with controversial issues. Consequently, the Swiss detective plays a major role, as he must often solve difficult cases while faced with tremendous pressure from society. By focusing exclusively on Switzerland, this analysis will ultimately prove that the modern Swiss crime novel contains not only an entertainment aspect, but also important political, sociological and historical elements that distinguish the phenomenon from its international counterparts.

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Cannon, Ammie Sorensen. "Controversial politics, conservative genre : Rex Stout's Archie-Wolfe duo and detective fiction's conventional form /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1340.pdf.

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Gläßer, Jana. "Was ist Mystery?" Thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-137295.

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Die vorliegende Seminararbeit zeigt anhand einer breit gefächerten Analyse von Mystery die Vielfältigkeit des Mystery-Begriffes und -Genres auf, besonders im Hinblick auf die Parallelen und Unterschiede zu seinem englischen Ursprung. Es erfolgt eine detaillierte etymologisch-lexikografische Betrachtung. In dieser wird auf die verschiedenen Bedeutungsfacetten von Mystery eingegangen sowie eine Anglizismus-/Pseudoanglizismus-Debatte geführt. Ausgangspunkt bildet der ursprüngliche Sinn von Mystery als Unerklärliches, generelles Rätsel, Geheimnis oder religiöses Mysterium. Es werden Verbindungen zu englischen Rätselgeschichten (mystery stories) gezogen, die allgemein von unerklärlichen Begebenheiten erzählt. Diese mysteries umfassen sowohl Rätsel im verbrechensbezogenen Kontext (detective stories) als auch die im Deutschen vorherrschenden Verbindungen zum Übernatürlichen sowie Geheimnisvoll-Rätselhaftes in den vielfältigsten Kontexten (Gothic novels, moderne American mystery story). Somit wird eine Annäherung der englisch-deutschen Mystery-Bedeutung sichtbar. Ferner versucht die Arbeit, auf Ursprünge und Entwicklungen des deutschen Mystery-Trends einzugehen und die Faszination Mystery zu erklären. Eine bedeutende Rolle kommt der Serie Akte X zu. Denn im Zuge ihrer Ausstrahlung und Vermarktung im deutschen Fernsehen wurde die englische Mystery-Bezeichnung aufgegriffen. In die gesamte Aufarbeitung werden verschiedenste Meinungen von Rezipientenseite, Vermarktung, Medien, Wissenschaft einbezogen. So entsteht ein Überblick zum Dargestellten im Mystery-Genre. Es wird belegt, dass im deutschsprachigen Raum ein relativ einheitliches Bewusstsein dafür besteht, was das Genre Mystery im filmischen und literarischen Bereich ausmacht.

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Barfoot, Nicola. "Frauenkrimi : generic expectations and the reception of recent French and German crime novels by women = Polar féminin /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015744779&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Wigbers, Melanie. "Krimi-Orte im Wandel : Gestaltung und Funktionen der Handlungsschauplätze in Kriminalerzählungen von der Romantik bis in die Gegenwart." Würzburg Königshausen & Neumann, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2834149&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.

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Swope, Richard A. "Metaphysical detectives and postmodern spaces, or the case of the missing boundaries." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1829.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2001.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 241 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-241).

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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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Engar, Amy Kimball. "Mystery writers in foreign settings : the literary devices and methods used to portray foreign geographies /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd727.pdf.

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Chan, Lit-chung. "Sherlock Holmes, The secret agent, and ideas of justice." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31643462.

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卓紹雯 and Siu-man Maggie Cheuk. "The construction of gender and morality in crime novels." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31222316.

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Cheuk, Siu-man Maggie. "The construction of gender and morality in crime novels /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22142666.

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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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Johansson, Cecilia. "Bibliotekarien som detektiv : Representationer av bibliotekarier i detektivromaner." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-200921.

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This master's thesis is a study of how librarians are depicted in crime fiction. 12 American and English mysterynovels featuring librarians in a central role were studied and analysed using character theory. Recurring traitswere identified and organised into themes. A number of prominent traits and themes emerged that show librariansas orderly and organised bibliophiles, but with a taste for adventure and excitement. They are keen problem solverswho enjoy a challenge, at work, or in the form of crime detection. These traits show fairly different sides ofthe characters, and hint of librarians having something of a dubble nature. Some of the traits resonate with findings in earlier studies in the field, but the old stereotype was only parti -ally confirmed. In general the image of librarians presented in the mystery novels is a positive one, which inmany respects also rings true against the background of actual librarians and library work. This is a two years master's thesis in Archive, Library and Museum studies.

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Howard, David G. "The hard-boiled detective personal relationships and the pursuit of redemption /." Connect to resource online, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2189.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2010.
Title from screen (viewed on July 19, 2010). Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Robert Rebein, Jonathan Eller, William Touponce. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-86).

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Tyrrell, Belinda. "Displays of masculinity : James Ellroy and the violent drama of male subjectivity." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1998. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27559.

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My thesis examines the work of contemporary crime fiction author James Ellroy, focusing on his representation of the constitution of masculine subjectivity through the ritualised repetition of violence. Locating his texts in postwar America, Ellroy reconstructs this as an era saturated with violence, whose ideological fabric is woven from the intersecting strands of misogyny, racism and homophobia. Elucidating these inequitable power relations, I adapt Kristeva’s theory of abjection to suggest that Ellroy divides his textual universe into the mutually exclusive realms of a domain of “viable” subjects and a sphere of abjected individuals (women, homosexual men, and men from diverse ethnic backgrounds) on whose rigorously enforced exclusion the former domain’s privilege is predicated. Filtered through the perspectives of men striving for “viable” subjectivity, Ellroy’s novels are concerned with crises of gender and sexual identity and the attainment of “manhood” against the background of a normative ideal of masculine behaviour. Mapping the means by which Ellroy’s protagonists obtain “manhood” and “viability,” I argue that this is accomplished through their participation in the violation of abjected individuals and their capacity to adopt a particular behavioural paradigm which foregrounds the capacity to disseminate and endure violence as the primary constitutive element of masculine subjectivity. Examining the implications of Ellroy’s representations of masculinity and violence, I contend that his claims to merely “reflect” the “real” violence and bigotry of the postwar era mystify his naturalisation of the power imbalances undergirding this society. Rather than critiquing the logic of abjection in which his narrative universe is grounded, his fiction restates it by effacing the subjectivity of devalued individuals, reiterating the processes of objectification, specularisation and violation which enable their oppression, and valorising the violent mode of masculinity responsible for subjugating these groups. In doing so Ellroy’s texts themselves constitute acts of violence against both these subordinated groups and against his readers.

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Cristòfol, Allué Francesc Xavier. "Estudio crítico la novela policíaca española de posguerra: 1940-1953." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667422.

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En principio, la novela policíaca española de la inmediata posguerra, comprendida entre los años 1940 y 1953, es un instrumento válido de conocimiento histórico del primer franquismo, por una doble vía: primero, porque realiza una crítica social del régimen político franquista, y porque presenta un compendio de los valores sociales dominantes. En el caso español, por las características propias de la posguerra que deviene del conflicto bélico, hay que añadir una limitación importante; por una parte deben enfrentarse a la censura de un régimen totalitario y por otra la falta de una tradición de novela policíaca española, le hace dependiente de los modelos extranjeros. La suma de la censura más la copia de las novelas extranjeras da como resultado un híbrido políciaco, que refleja sociedades ficticias, pero de manera sesgada es posible encontrar frescos de la dura realidad española con elementos de crítica social.

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Leps, 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.

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Crosier, Erik R. "Character development through non-linear story format : its creation, use, and applications." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1390655.

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The purpose of this creative project is to explore the concept of character development as it appears in non-linear story formats. These formats are those of relatively recent technological advances that have paved the way for stories to be related to an audience in ways that are completely unique to each individual audience member. This project specifically is a murder mystery story, told in such a non-linear fashion. The story is capable of being viewed in a completely unique manner by each individual audience member. From this story, viewer's opinions have been examined, and conclusions have been drawn of the value and significance of non-linear story formats in relation to character development.
Department of Telecommunications

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Pallo, Vicki. "Quarantining the criminal isolation in early British literature of crime and detection /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.

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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 acts. These detectives illustrate positive masculinity, proving that fiction has more uses than mere entertainment. In this paper, I trace four detectives, each from a different era. Sherlock Holmes lives to solve problems. His primary function is to solve a riddle. Lord Peter Wimsey takes on the moral question of why anyone should detect at all. His stories involve the difficulty of justifying putting oneself in the morally superior position of judge. The Mike Hammer stories treat the difficulty of dealing with criminals who use the law to protect themselves. They have perverted the protections of society, and Hammer must find a way to bring them to justice outside of the law. The Kate Martinelli stories focus more on the victims of crime than on the criminals. Martinelli discovers the motivations that draw a criminal toward a specific victim and explains what it is about certain victims that makes villains want to harm them. All of these detectives display the traditional traits of the Western male. They are hunters; they protect society as a whole. Yet each detective fulfills a certain cultural role that speaks to the specific problems of his or her era, proving that masculinity is a more fluid role than many have previously credited.

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Trainin, 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.

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Trotman, 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.

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In the wake of Francisco Franco�s long dictatorship, various new forms of literature emerged in Spain. A new period of transformation, the so-called Spanish Transition, fostered an environment of experimentation and innovation free from the restrictive barriers of Franco�s regime. The Transition proved a period of great hopes and expectations as well as disillusionment and disappointment. This time, above all, provided an opportunity to reflect critically on the history and experience of the nation in the 20th century. Eduardo Mendoza is one among a generation of writers that experienced the early years of the Transition, the subsequent emergence of the Socialist Party and the reintroduction of Spain to Europe and, indeed, the rest of the world post 1975. This noted Catalan is one of several distinguished writers working within a new genre, the Spanish novela negra, or crime novel. In particular, he has written three novels El misterio de la cripta embrujada (1979), El laberinto de las aceitunas (1982) and La aventura del tocador de senoras (2001); each featuring an unlikely detective known as Ceferino. In this thesis, I examine Eduardo Mendoza�s three crime novels as a carnivalesque discourse. The work relies on the theory outlined by Mikhail Bakhtin in two of his foundational texts, Problems of Dostoevsky�s Poetics (1929) and Rabelais� World (1940). In 1929, Bakhtin sketched out the idea of "carnivalization" as the transposition of the spirit of carnival into art. It was not until his thesis (now known as Rabelais� World) was published in 1960 however that his vision of carnival was understood and the link between the carnivalized text and popular culture emerged. This research focuses on Bakhtin�s four 'categories of carnival': free and familiar contact, eccentricity, carnivalistic mesalliances, and profanation, in order to develop a critical framework by which a text may be defined as carnivalesque. Through a comprehensive examination of what each of these categories entails, Bakhtin�s paradigm is linked to Eduardo Mendoza�s crime trilogy and these texts are consequently defined as undeniably carnivalesque. The conclusion of the thesis suggests several possibilities as to why Eduardo Mendoza, as a contemporary Spanish crime fiction writer, employs a carnivalesque discourse to depict post-Franco culture. The Transition and the decade between 1982 and 1992 are defined as periods of rupture from the official order. These years are considered an ideal environment for the unleashing of a carnivalesque ambiance in Spain that inherently effected the aesthetic production of the period, and specifically the works of Eduardo Mendoza.

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Massey, Susan. "The uncocked gun? : representations of masculinity in contemporary crime fiction." Thesis, St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/898.

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Hoffman, 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.

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In this thesis, I examine representations of women and gender in British ‘Golden Age' crime fiction by writers including Margery Allingham, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey and Patricia Wentworth. I argue that portrayals of women in these narratives are ambivalent, both advocating a modern, active model of femininity, while also displaying with their resolutions an emphasis on domesticity and on maintaining a heteronormative order, and that this ambivalence provides a means to deal with anxieties about women's place in society. This thesis is divided thematically, beginning with a chapter on historical context which provides an overview of the period's key social tensions. Chapter II explores depictions of women who do not conform to the heteronormative order, such as spinsters, lesbians and ‘fallen' women. Chapter III looks at the ways in which the courtships and marriages of detective couples attempt to negotiate the ideal of companionate marriage and the pressures of a ‘cult of domesticity'. Chapter IV considers the ways in which depictions of women in schools, universities and the workplace are used to explore the tensions between an expanding role in the public sphere and the demand to inhabit traditionally domestic roles. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the image of female victims' and female killers' bodies and the ways in which such depictions can be seen to expose issues of gender, class and identity. Through its examination of a wide variety of texts and writers in the period 1920 to the late 1940s, this thesis investigates the ambivalent nature of modes of femininity depicted in Golden Age crime fiction written by women, and argues that seemingly conservative resolutions are often attempts to provide a ‘modern-yet-safe' solution to the conflicts raised in the texts.