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Symons, Julian. “What they Are and Why We Read Them.” From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel. New York: Mysterious Press, 1992. pp. 1-18. |
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• Edgar Allan Poe, “The Murders in Rue Morgue” (1841)
• Edgar Allan Poe, “The Mystery of Marie Roget” (1845)
• Edgar Allan Poe, “The Purloined Letter” (1845)
• Charles Dickens, “On Duty with Inspector Field” (1851) |
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• Readings for Group 1. Mandel, Ernest. “From Hero to Villain,” and “From Villain to Hero.” Delightful Murder: A Social History of the Crime Story. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. pp. 1-21.
• Readings for Group 2. Emsley, Clive. “Policing before the Police” and “The Coming of the Police.” The English Police. Routledge, 2014. pp. 8-42.
• Readings for Group 3. Gelfert, Axel. “Observation, inference, and imagination: elements of Edgar Allan Poe’s philosophy of science.” Science & Education, vol. 23, no. 3, 2014, pp. 589-607. |
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• Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Final Problem” (1893)
• Maurice Leblanc, “Arsène Lupin in Prison” (1907)
• Gilbert K. Chesterton, “The Blue Cross” (1910) |
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Readings for Group 1. Grella, George. “Murder and manners: the formal detective story.” Novel, 1970, pp. 30-48
Readings for Group 2 & 3. Ronald Knox, “The Ten Commandments of the Detective Fiction” (1929); W. H. Auden, “The Guilty Vicarage,” Harper Magazine (1948): 406-412 |
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• Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, The Serial Killer (2018)
• James Ellroy, L.A. Confidential (1990) |
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• Jacques Futrelle, “The Problem of Cell 13” (1905)
• E. C.Bentley, “The Sweet Shot” (1913)
• Agatha Christie “The Tuesday Night Club” (1927)
• Margery Allingham, “The Border-Line Case” (1928)
• Dorothy Sayers, “The Image in the Mirror” (1933) |
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Midterm |
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• Readings for Group 1. Hühn, Peter. “The Detective as Reader: Narrativity and Reading Concepts in Detective Fiction.” Modern Fiction Studies 33, no. 3 (1987): 451–66.
• Readings for Group 2. Dove, George. “The Rules of the Game.” Studies in Popular Culture 4 (1981): 67–72.
• Readings for Group 3. Fram, John. “How Crime writers Justified Police Brutality.” New York Times (June 4, 2020). |
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• Sara Paretsky, Indemnity Only (1991)
• The following movie will be analyzed: Norman Jewison, In The Heat of the Night (1967). From a novel by John Ball |
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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four (1890)
The following movie will be analyzed: Jean de Segonzac, Law & Order SVU Season 1 Episode 1 (1999) |
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• Readings for Group 1. Eco, Umberto. “Guessing: from Aristotle to Sherlock Holmes.” Versus. Quaderni di Studi Semiotici Milano, no. 30, 1981, pp. 3-19.
• Readings for Group 2. Bloch, Ernst. “A philosophical View of the Detective Novel.” Discourse, vol. 2, 1980, pp. 32-52.
• Readings for Group 3. Haycraft, Howard. “Dictators, Democrats, and Detective. and “The Future of the Detective Story” (1951). Murder for Pleasure. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2019. pp. 234-244. |
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• Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X (2005)
• S.S. Van Dine’s “Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories” (1928)
• Anthony Berkeley, “The Avenging Chance” (1925)
• Ellery Queen, “The Mad Tea Party” (1929)
The following movie will be analyzed: Akira Kurosawa, High and Low (1963) |
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Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers (1989)
• Raymond Chandler, “The Simple Art of Murder” (1944)
• Dashiell Hammett, “Fly Paper” (1929)
• Raymond Chandler, “Blackmailers Don’t Shoot” (1933)
• Georges Simenon, “Maigret’s Christmas” (1951)
The following movie will be analyzed: John Huston, The Maltese Falcon (1941). From a novel by Dashiell Hammett |
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