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    Making Manhattan: urban hieroglyphics, patternings and tattoos in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart' (1843) and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851)

    Making Manhattan: urban hieroglyphics, patternings and tattoos in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart' (1843) and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) by Jordan, Spencer

    Published 2017
    “…In detective fiction, the city has often been represented as an arena of signs and secrets, what Laura Marcus has called ‘urban hieroglyphics’. …”
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    The flight of the angels: intertextuality in four novels by Boris Vian

    The flight of the angels: intertextuality in four novels by Boris Vian by Rolls, Alistair

    Published 1998
    “…Within this threefold strategy, the thesis yields a new reading of the four novels: Chapters One and Two deal with caricature and 'clins d'reil' in L 'Ecume des jours, exposing an association with Surrealism and the beginnings of a novelistic mythology; Chapters Three and Four follow the surface structure of L 'Automne a Pekin, at each stage revealing the veiled intertextual structure, the importance both of Parisian novels and the genre of detective fiction; Chapters Five and Six question the status of L 'Herbe rouge as a novel of Science Fiction, exposing its oneiric qualities and the role of death; finally, Chapters Seven and Eight show how the tetralogy can be seen to reach its climax in a final novel which closes the circle, bringing the narrative back to the beginning of the first. …”
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    Between magic and reason: science in 19th century popular fiction

    Between magic and reason: science in 19th century popular fiction by Roach, Katherine

    Published 2011
    “…Links between developing scientific disciplines and the emerging genre of detective fiction have been well described to date. Yet the history of the detective as scientific icon has not been told, particularly not as it engages with the history of the mad scientist. …”
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    The poetics of deviance in contemporary American crime fiction

    The poetics of deviance in contemporary American crime fiction by Gregoriou, Christiana

    Published 2003
    “…Key words: crime/detective fiction, carnival, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, deviance/deviation, stylistics, genre, defamiliarisation, James Patterson, Patricia Cornwell, Michael Connelly…”
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    Food And Pollution In Two Films From Contemporary Japan

    Food And Pollution In Two Films From Contemporary Japan by Hartley, Barbara

    Published 2012
    “…Loosely based on a short story by pre-war detective fiction/horror writer, Edogawa Rampo (1894–1965), the frenzied Gemini depicts the desperate modern attempt to suppress and eradicate the "filth" of the poor and socially dispossessed. …”
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