Waiting

2017 ◽  
pp. 93-123
Author(s):  
Theodore Martin
Keyword(s):  
Risk Society ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
Detective Novels ◽  
Michael Chabon ◽  
Current Risk

Chapter 3 investigates what happens when contemporary time is felt to be a time of seemingly interminable waiting. I show how this question has become central to the contemporary detective novel, which depicts the temporality of waiting as both a symptom of and a hedge against the cultural logic of uncertainty that dominates our current risk society. Skeptical of the sense of indeterminacy that enthralls and confounds our contemporary moment, recent detective novels by Vikram Chandra, Michael Chabon, and China Miéville, I argue, use the logic of the wait to solve the mysteries of contemporary time.

The Many Pasts of Detective Fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-172
Author(s):  
Thomas Leitch
Keyword(s):  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Public History ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Detective Story ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Detective Novels ◽  
The Many

Building on Tzvetan Todorov's observation that the detective novel ‘contains not one but two stories: the story of the crime and the story of the investigation’, this essay argues that detective novels display a remarkably wide range of attitudes toward the several pasts they represent: the pasts of the crime, the community, the criminal, the detective, and public history. It traces a series of defining shifts in these attitudes through the evolution of five distinct subgenres of detective fiction: exploits of a Great Detective like Sherlock Holmes, Golden Age whodunits that pose as intellectual puzzles to be solved, hardboiled stories that invoke a distant past that the present both breaks with and echoes, police procedurals that unfold in an indefinitely extended present, and historical mysteries that nostalgically fetishize the past. It concludes with a brief consideration of genre readers’ own ambivalent phenomenological investment in the past, present, and future each detective story projects.

scholarly journals Lineamientos básicos de la protección penal adelantada de la vida y salud en el trabajo

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 293-317
Author(s):  
Patricia Gallo
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Direct Relevance ◽  
Safety Regulations ◽  
Criminal Protection ◽  
Derecho Penal ◽  
Adequate Design ◽  
Current Risk

RESÚMEN:En el presente trabajo se analiza a qué pautas debe responder la protección penal de la vida y salud de los trabajadores, frente a los riesgos inherentes de la actividad laboral. Teniendo en cuenta que la principal causa de los accidentes y enfermedades de trabajo consiste en el incumplimiento de las normas de seguridad extrapenales (administrativo/laborales), es necesario -en aras de la eficacia de la protección penal- adelantar la barrera de punición a través de un delito de peligro, como lo ha hecho el legislador español mediante el art. 316 del CP español. Partiendo del contexto en el que se enmarca la necesidad de esta protección penal intensificada (fundamentalmente la actual sociedad de riesgo y los fenómenos de expansión y modernización del Derecho penal), se ponen aquí de manifiesto las características propias a las que responde este especial delito de peligro y que tienen directa relevancia en un adecuado diseño del tipo penal que se postula RESUMO:Neste artigo, analisamos a quais diretrizes a proteção criminal da vida e da saúde dos trabalhadores respondem, contra os riscos inerentes à atividade laboral. Tendo em vista que a principal causa de acidentes e doenças profissionais consiste na violação de normas de segurança extra criminais (administrativas / trabalhistas), é necessário - em prol da eficácia da proteção criminal- avançar a barreira da punição através de um crime de perigo, como o legislador espanhol fez através do art. 316 do CP espanhol. A partir do contexto em que se enquadra a necessidade dessa proteção criminal intensificada (principalmente na atual sociedade de risco e diante dos fenômenos de expansão e modernização do direito penal), serão expostas as características desse crime especial de perigo e que tenham relevância direta para um design adequado do tipo penal postulado.ABSTRACT:In this paper, we analyze to which guidelines the criminal protection of the life and health of the workers must respond, against the inherent risks of the labor activity. Taking into account that the main cause of accidents and occupational diseases consists in the breach of extra-criminal safety regulations (administrative / labor), it is necessary - for the sake of the effectiveness of criminal protection - to advance the puncture barrier through of a crime of danger, as the Spanish legislator has done through art. 316 of the Spanish CP. Starting from the context in which the need for this intensified criminal protection is framed (mainly the current risk society and the phenomena of expansion and modernization of criminal law), the characteristics of this special crime of danger and that have direct relevance in an adequate design of the criminal type that is postulated. 

scholarly journals THE FEMINISTIC COMPONENT IN THEFEMALE DETECTIVE NOVEL: THE COMPARATIVE ASPECT (ON THE BASIS OF WORKS BY IRENE ROZDOBUDKO “THE DOUBLE GAME IN FOUR HANDS” AND “GAUDY NIGHT”BY DOROTHY SAYERS)

2019 ◽  
pp. 470-476
Author(s):  
T. M. Huliak
Keyword(s):  
Detective Novel ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Comparative Aspect ◽  
Detective Novels ◽  
Dorothy Sayers ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Female Detective ◽  
Similarity And Difference ◽  
Original Female

The article deals with the feminist component in the detective novels «The Double Game in Four Hands» by I. Rozdobudko and «Gaudy Night» by D. Sayers. Its dominant features are distinguished: original female images and women's writing which is manifested through the detailing and usage of parenthetical constructions. The common and distinctive features of the use of the feminist component in the Ukrainian and English female detective discourse are described. The similarity and difference in the images of Musya Gurchyk and Harriet Vane who are the expressions of the creative method of detective writers are analyzed. The emotional and detailing functions of the parenthetical constructions are described. It is emphasized that the feminist component plays an important role in the creation of the genre of the female detective novel.

scholarly journals Metodologia śledztwa w poszukiwaniu biografii Jerzego Siewierskiego

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 516-540
Author(s):  
Milena Kościelniak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Memory ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Literary Research ◽  
Detective Novels ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Present Text ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The history of literature, like human memory, can be as selective as it is unreliable, which means that many authors of every epoch disappear into the darkness of oblivion. A researcher’s task is to restore the memory of those whose works he or she finds valuable or interesting enough to want to study. The present text deals with Jerzy Siewierski, a largely forgotten writer of post-war Poland and a silent co-founder of the flagship magazine “Współczesność,” in an attempt to reconstruct the biography of the Warsaw-based writer. This work on restoring Siewierski is carried out using methods close to those used by readers of detective novels – after all, the writer himself became famous for them in communist Poland. Thus, we study archival traces, i.e. the traces left by the author himself as well as those that were left by him without his will. Parallel to the archival research, witnesses so people who knew Siewierski and remember him, are being “interviewed”. What emerges from these interviews is a perverse, intelligent, and interesting figure, both significant and in the shadow of the great revolutions. Interestingly, certain elements of the writer’s self-creation allow us to look for subtle connotations with the father of the detective novel, Arthur Conan DoyleThese observations are all the more interesting and valuable for literary research because no comprehensive study of Jerzy Siewierski has been written before, and most information about him comes from the Siewierski family archives, conversations with his relatives, and memorabilia left by the writer.

scholarly journals Cykl o Teosiu Kefirku Małgorzaty Strękowskiej-Zaremby wobec wzorca powieści detektywistycznej

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 74-83
Author(s):  
Iwona Mityk
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Detective Novels ◽  
Classic Pattern

Series about the Adventures of Teoś Kefirek Małgorzaty Strękowskiej-Zaremby According to the Patterns of a Detective Novels Małgorzata Strękowska-Zaremba is the author which writes a children’s novels. In her cycle of Teoś Kefirek she was inspired by classic pattern of detective novel, but she was able to modify it. She tries to work out her own style, creates colorful characters and fixes them in the 21st century realities and on the other hand she is capable of using conventional elements of genre and renews them with her own suggestions. She also intertwined the moments of great suspense with situations full of humour on account of young readers.

scholarly journals Alternative Visions Of Crime And Community In Wilkie Collins' The Woman In White And The Moonstone

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Pennington
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Wilkie Collins ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
Detective Novels ◽  
Woman In White ◽  
To Come ◽  
Police Detective ◽  
The Moonstone ◽  
Detective Genre

When T. S. Eliot described Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone (1868) as the “first and greatest of English detective novels” (413), he could not have predicted the number of writers who would take issue with his brief phrase. While some have embraced Eliot’s adjectives (Bisla; Hennelly), others have critiqued the “first” and “greatest” descriptors, identifying Collins’ predecessors (Duncan; Klimaszewski), and contemporaries who offer The Moonstone some competition for the title of “greatest” (Smillie; Thomas). Still others have taken issue with defining the novel as “English,” due to its anti-Imperialist critiques (Narayan; Roy). Following in the footsteps of scholars such as Tamar Heller and D. A. Miller, the descriptor I choose to trouble in this essay is “detective.” Though The Moonstone inarguably contains a detective character, and a complex mystery that is indeed solved through detection, I argue that, especially when viewed in conjunction with Collins’ earlier novel The Woman in White (1859), Collins should be understood not as establishing the conventions of the detective novel to come, but as working against the tide of a developing genre which became increasingly police- and law-focused. Rather than valorizing the police detective or reifying the justness of the legal system, these novels articulate a vision of crime and justice outside of the boundaries of law and policing, one markedly different from the “detective” genre Eliot credits Collins with founding.

scholarly journals O funcionamento discursivo dos textos de contracapa da “Coleção Vampiro”

2021 ◽  
pp. 121-136
Author(s):  
Noémia Jorge
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Mixed Methodology ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
Back Cover ◽  
Detective Novels ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The present article presents a comprehensive study on the discursive functioning of the detective novels back cover texts of the Coleção Vampiro (CV), published every month in Portugal between 1947 and 2008. From a descriptive and linguistic perspective which assumes the discourse types (Bronckart 1997, 2008) as a category of analysis, they are analysed the back cover texts of 104 volumes from the CV (14,6% of the collection), adopting a mixed methodology which integrates both quantitative and qualitative methods. It is concluded that, in the first part of the collection, the book cover texts present a predominantly expositive dimension as well as a strong implication of both the speaker and the receiver, which contributes to the dissemination and popularization of the detective novel genre. In the second part, the texts present a predominantly narrative dimension and they are marked by the erasure of the speaker and the receiver, corresponding almost entirely to the synopsis of the detective novel in question

scholarly journals Alternative Visions Of Crime And Community In Wilkie Collins' The Woman In White And The Moonstone

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Pennington
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Wilkie Collins ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
Detective Novels ◽  
Woman In White ◽  
To Come ◽  
Police Detective ◽  
The Moonstone ◽  
Detective Genre

When T. S. Eliot described Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone (1868) as the “first and greatest of English detective novels” (413), he could not have predicted the number of writers who would take issue with his brief phrase. While some have embraced Eliot’s adjectives (Bisla; Hennelly), others have critiqued the “first” and “greatest” descriptors, identifying Collins’ predecessors (Duncan; Klimaszewski), and contemporaries who offer The Moonstone some competition for the title of “greatest” (Smillie; Thomas). Still others have taken issue with defining the novel as “English,” due to its anti-Imperialist critiques (Narayan; Roy). Following in the footsteps of scholars such as Tamar Heller and D. A. Miller, the descriptor I choose to trouble in this essay is “detective.” Though The Moonstone inarguably contains a detective character, and a complex mystery that is indeed solved through detection, I argue that, especially when viewed in conjunction with Collins’ earlier novel The Woman in White (1859), Collins should be understood not as establishing the conventions of the detective novel to come, but as working against the tide of a developing genre which became increasingly police- and law-focused. Rather than valorizing the police detective or reifying the justness of the legal system, these novels articulate a vision of crime and justice outside of the boundaries of law and policing, one markedly different from the “detective” genre Eliot credits Collins with founding.

scholarly journals John Dickson Carr’s Early Detective Novels and the Gothic Convention.

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Joanna Kokot
Keyword(s):  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
World Model ◽  
The Past ◽  
Detective Novels ◽  
The World ◽  
Rational Order

<p>Even if the Gothic romance may be considered as one of the predecessors of detective fiction, the world model proposed by the latter seems to exclude what was the essence of the former: the irrational underlying the proposed world model. However, some of detective novel writers deploy Gothic conventions in their texts, thus questioning the rational order of the reality presented there. Such a genological syncretism is typical - among others - of the novels by John Dickson Carr. The paper is an analysis of Gothic conventions and their functions in four earliest novels by Carr, featuring a French detective-protagonist, Henri Bencolin. It concentrates on elements of Gothic horror, on the atmosphere of terror as well as the motif of the past intruding the present.</p>

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