Detective Fiction on the Case of Community: The Mystery at the Heart of the Modern (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

By: Devin Fromm

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Synopsis: Detective Fiction on the Case of Community uses one of the most popular forms of modern literature to examine one of modernity’s most trenchant problems. The project rests on the argument that detective fiction emerges specifically from an awareness of the stress that modernization puts on the possibilities of communal life, as industrialization and urbanism accelerate the alienation and atomization we recognize as modern conditions. Here the detective appears as an image of thinking still able to perceive the threads that link such alienated people together, and therefore able to imagine solutions along the lines of these obscured connections. Reading the genre’s journey, from its origins in Poe to its most unorthodox form in Pynchon, allows fresh perspectives on the possibilities and limits of modern community, from its endurance as part of modernization to its meaning today as a sticking point in theoretical debate and political activism.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781040144534
Related ISBNs:: 9781040144527, 9781032618548, 9781032618470
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/25/24
Copyrighted By:: Devin Fromm
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Language Arts, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.