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The book focuses on contemporary staff-centred mystery novels set in the academic domain, written by scholars who enrich the generic convention of the detective novel with their academic expertise. The author delineates the academic mystery genre conventions and their connection with the characteristics of both the classical detective novel and the academic (university) novel. The analysis shows that the academic mystery novel not only fills in the classical detective formula with academic discourse, university settings, and the characters and conflicts of academics from different echelons of the university hierarchy but also, and more importantly, refers to and comments upon the current situation of tertiary education.



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The academic mystery novel as detective fiction, academic fiction, and meta-educational fiction – Metafictional and intertextual games in the academic mystery novel – Academics as characters of detective fiction – The academic gender gap

The Contemporary Academic Mystery Novel: A Study

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    A Hardback by Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim, Elżbieta Perkowska-Gawlik

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      Publisher: Peter Lang AG
      Publication Date: 24/08/2021
      ISBN13: 9783631852538, 978-3631852538
      ISBN10: 3631852533

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The book focuses on contemporary staff-centred mystery novels set in the academic domain, written by scholars who enrich the generic convention of the detective novel with their academic expertise. The author delineates the academic mystery genre conventions and their connection with the characteristics of both the classical detective novel and the academic (university) novel. The analysis shows that the academic mystery novel not only fills in the classical detective formula with academic discourse, university settings, and the characters and conflicts of academics from different echelons of the university hierarchy but also, and more importantly, refers to and comments upon the current situation of tertiary education.



      Table of Contents

      The academic mystery novel as detective fiction, academic fiction, and meta-educational fiction – Metafictional and intertextual games in the academic mystery novel – Academics as characters of detective fiction – The academic gender gap

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