{"product_id":"new-perspectives-on-detective-fiction-9781138547650","title":"New Perspectives on Detective Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, examining the ways it shapes issues of social destabilization, moral ambiguity, reader complicity, intertextuality, and metafiction. Breaking new ground by moving beyond the critical preoccupation with classification of historical types and generic determinants, contributors examine the effect of mystery on literary forms and on readers, who experience the provocative, complex process of coming to grips with the unknown and the unknowable. This volume opens up discussion on publically acclaimed, modern works of mystery and on classic pieces, addressing a variety of forms including novels, plays, graphic novels, television series, films, and ipad games. Re-examining the interpretive potential of a genre that seems easily defined yet has endless permutations, the book closely analyzes the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Embarking on a New Investigation \u003ci\u003eCasey A. Cothran and Mercy Cannon\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1: Disturbing Expectations \u003c\/b\u003e1. Troubling Bodies of Evidence: Gender, Detection, and the Problems of Self-Reinvention in Raymond Chandler’s \u003ci\u003eThe Lady in the Lake\u003c\/i\u003e and Tim O’Brien’s \u003ci\u003eIn the Lake of the Woods Andrew M. Hakim \u003c\/i\u003e2. The Revelations of the Corpse: Interpreting the Body in the Golden Age Detective Novel \u003ci\u003eBrittain Bright and Rebecca Mills \u003c\/i\u003e3. Mapping the Mark: Tattoos, Crime Fiction, and Gendered Cartographies \u003ci\u003eKate Watson \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2: Implicating Readers \u003c\/b\u003e4. The Transtextuality of James M. Cain’s Snyder-Gray Novels: \u003ci\u003eThe Postman Always Rings Twice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDouble Indemnity,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Cocktail Waitress\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJennie MacDonald \u003c\/i\u003e5. P.D. James’s Discontinuous Narrative: A Suitable Job for a Reader \u003cem\u003eJanice Marion Shaw\u003c\/em\u003e 6. Franz Kafka: Before the Fictional Process \u003ci\u003eDavid Ben-Merre \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3: Indicting Cultures \u003c\/b\u003e7. J.D. Robb’s Police Procedurals and the Critique of Modernity \u003ci\u003eSrividhya Swaminathan \u003c\/i\u003e8. Cooking the Books: Metafictional Myth and Ecocritical Magic in \"Cozy\" Mysteries from Agatha Christie to Contemporary Cooking Sleuths \u003ci\u003eSusan Rowland \u003c\/i\u003e9. Romance Narratives, Blackmail, and the Price of Knowledge in the Novels of Raymond Chandler \u003ci\u003eJohn Scaggs \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4: Adapting Forms \u003c\/b\u003e10. Agatha Christie’s\u003ci\u003e Mousetrap\u003c\/i\u003e and Tom Stoppard’s \u003ci\u003eReal Inspector Hound\u003c\/i\u003e: Playing Cat and Mouse with Farce, Parody, and Meta-Theatricality \u003ci\u003eCaroline Marie \u003c\/i\u003e11. Beyond the Fog: \u003ci\u003eInherent Vice\u003c\/i\u003e and Thomas Pynchon’s Noir Adjustment \u003ci\u003eEleanor Gold \u003c\/i\u003e12. The Mystery of the Missing Formula: Adapting the World’s Most Popular Girl Detective to Multimedia Platforms \u003ci\u003eBeth Walker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019498619223,"sku":"9781138547650","price":47.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138547650.jpg?v=1750780449","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/new-perspectives-on-detective-fiction-9781138547650","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}