Profiling the American Detective
Parker’s Prose on the Coded Game of Sleuth and Rogue and the Tradition of the Crime Story
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Beschreibung
Firmly anchored in literary and psychoanalytic theory, yet also combining an ironically essayistic style with scholarly profundity, this book reinserts the «mystery genre» in its framework of Western history and tradition. Exemplifying the arguments by systematic references to the «American Detective» par excellence, Robert B. Parker’s Spenser, vistas are opened up to a remarkable œuvre, while, at the same time, a whole popular genre is reevaluated. In addition, major Western ideals and notions are discussed which are arguably more clearly discernable in detective fiction than anywhere else, yet reach far beyond a mere genre and are of general relevance. The analysis of the delicacy and eminently entertaining qualities of detective fiction is nicely balanced with reflections on what literature means to us existentially.
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Georg Schmid
Themen in »Profiling the American Detective«
American Coded Crime Detective Detektiv (Motiv) Game Kriminalroman Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte Literaturtheorie Parker, Robert B. (Schriftsteller) Parker’s Profiling Prose Psychoanalyse Rogue
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«...Schmid's book offers interesting philosophical ideas, information about Robert B. Parker and his work, and some frequently discussed questions relating to detective fiction.» (Carmen Birkle, Amst Amerikastudien)
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