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Lehrende/r: Dr. Angelica Michelis
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
05.874.410
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Anmeldegruppe: ELC 410
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
The course will run from Monday 20 to Friday 24 July. Students will listen to recorded power point lectures (from 20-23 July) and then engage with a set of questions as small groups (either face-to-face if allowed or online) and send a summary of their discussion to me via email (a.michelis@mmu.ac.uk). We will then have a 45 minute online discussion via skype or zoom. On Friday 24 July, we will have a one hour skype or zoom session to discuss queries about essays and any other issues.
Inhalt:
This course will offer students a general historical overview and a critical analysis of British, European and American crime and detective fiction from the mid-19thc to the present. We will read examples of 19th century, 20th century and contemporary crime writing and its diverse sub genres such as, detective fiction, American noir thriller, psychological thriller, forensic/serial killer novel. During the course, we will identify the formal features of the set texts, distinguishing which stylistic elements are typical of the genre and which are peculiar to the authors. This analysis will be embedded in a literary-historical and literary-critical overview of the development of crime fiction as genre.
Empfohlene Literatur:
We will be reading the following texts:
Monday: The detective: Introduction + (2 lectures)
Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Purloined Letter’, 1844
Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, 1887
Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926
Tuesday: British Golden Age vs American Noir: (2 lectures)
Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body?, 1923
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, 1939
Wednesday: Female detectives, reading clues, reading the corpse: (2 lectures)
P.D James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, 1972
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose, 1980
Patricia Cornwell, Postmortem, 1990
Thursday: Crimes of the past; Whose crime?: (1 lecture)
Kate Atkinson, Case Histories, 2004
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 2012
Friday: Online discussion of essay questions and further queries
Zusätzliche Informationen:
Further Reading/Resources
Brown, Ray B. and Lawrence JA. Kreiser Jr. The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction (Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Press, 2000)
Di Ciolla, Nicoletta, Uncertain Justice: Crimes and Retribution in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar, 2011)
Fiske, John, Understanding Popular Culture (London: Routledge, 1992)
Foucault, Michel, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991)
Knight, Steven, Crime Fiction 1800-2000: Detection, Death, Diversity (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004)
Kristeva Julia, The Powers of Horror. An Essay on Abjection (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982)
Mandel Ernest, Delightful Murder: A Social History of the Crime Story (London: Pluto Press, 1984)
Munt, Sally M., Murder by the Book? Feminism and the Crime Novel (London: Routledge, 1994)
Plain, Gill, Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender, Sexuality and the Body (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001)
Bibliography
Dove, George, The reader and the detective story (Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press 1997)
Forter Greg, Murdering Masculinities: Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel (New York: New York University Press, 2000)
Frank, Lawrence , Victorian detective fiction and the nature of evidence: the scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens and Doyle (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 Herbert, Rosemary , et.al, The Oxford companion to crime and mystery writing (Oxford : Oxford University Press 1999)
Horsley, Lee et.al, A Companion to Crime Fiction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010)
Horsley, Lee, The Noir Thriller (Basingstoke: Palgrave: 2009)
Italian Noir: The Story of Italian Crime Fiction (DVD/e-resource)
James, P. D, Talking about Detective Fiction (London: Faber , 2010)
McCann, Sean, Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000 (e-book)
Keating, H. R. F., Writing Crime Fiction (London: A & C Black, 1994)
Mullen, Anne (et.al), Crime Scenes: Detective Narratives in European Culture since 1945 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000)
Phillips, Gene D, Creatures of darkness: Raymond Chandler, detective fiction, and film noir (Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky 2003)
Rowland, Susan, From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British Woman Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2001)
Scaggs, John, Crime Fiction (London: Routledge, 2005) (e-book)
Worthington, Heather, Key Concepts in Crime Fiction (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011)
Wynn, Douglas, The Crime Writers Handbook (London: Allison & Busby, 1997)
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