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Profiling the American Detective: Parker's Prose on the Coded Game of Sleuth and Rogue and the Tradition of the Crime Story - Softcover
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 oeuvre, 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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«...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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The Author: Georg Schmid, a native of Vienna, has taught at universities in the USA, in France and mainly at the University of Salzburg. He has published half a dozen novels, about as many scholarly books and numerous articles on such diverse topics as contemporary history, literary theory, semiotics, film, urbanistics and transportation systems.
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- PublisherPeter Lang GmbH
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 3631526083
- ISBN 13 9783631526088
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages270
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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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