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Author : NA NA
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1981-01-15
ISBN 13 : 9781349813681
Pages : 1568 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (349 downloads)
Download Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers PDF Format Full Free by NA NA and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1981-01-15 with total page 1568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2015-12-25
ISBN 13 : 1349813664
Pages : 1568 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (813 downloads)
Download Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers PDF Format Full Free by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-25 with total page 1568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lesley Henderson
Publisher : Chicago : St. James Press
Release Date : 1991
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 1338 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Twentieth-century Crime and Mystery Writers PDF Format Full Free by Lesley Henderson and published by Chicago : St. James Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **** Cited in Sheehy and BCL3. The foremost reference in the field, completely revised and updated, and now covering about 600 authors, mainly English-language writers whose work appeared during or since the time of Conan Doyle. The entry for each writer consists of a biography, a bibliography, and a signed critical essay. Living authors were invited to add a comment on their work; many of them accepted, and their remarks are both entertaining and enlightening. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Ray Broadus Browne
Publisher : Popular Press
Release Date : 2001
ISBN 13 : 9780879728212
Pages : 1030 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (879 downloads)
Download The Guide to United States Popular Culture PDF Format Full Free by Ray Broadus Browne and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To understand the history and spirit of America, one must know its wars, its laws, and its presidents. To really understand it, however, one must also know its cheeseburgers, its love songs, and its lawn ornaments. The long-awaited Guide to the United States Popular Culture provides a single-volume guide to the landscape of everyday life in the United States. Scholars, students, and researchers will find in it a valuable tool with which to fill in the gaps left by traditional history. All American readers will find in it, one entry at a time, the story of their lives."--Robert Thompson, President, Popular Culture Association. "At long last popular culture may indeed be given its due within the humanities with the publication of The Guide to United States Popular Culture. With its nearly 1600 entries, it promises to be the most comprehensive single-volume source of information about popular culture. The range of subjects and diversity of opinions represented will make this an almost indispensable resource for humanities and popular culture scholars and enthusiasts alike."--Timothy E. Scheurer, President, American Culture Association "The popular culture of the United States is as free-wheeling and complex as the society it animates. To understand it, one needs assistance. Now that explanatory road map is provided in this Guide which charts the movements and people involved and provides a light at the end of the rainbow of dreams and expectations."--Marshall W. Fishwick, Past President, Popular Culture Association Features of The Guide to United States Popular Culture: 1,010 pages 1,600 entries 500 contributors Alphabetic entries Entries range from general topics (golf, film) to specific individuals, items, and events Articles are supplemented by bibliographies and cross references Comprehensive index
Author : Beatrix Hesse
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2015-08-02
ISBN 13 : 113746304X
Pages : 290 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (463 downloads)
Download The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century PDF Format Full Free by Beatrix Hesse and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of the English crime play, presenting a survey of 250 plays performed in the London West End between 1900 and 2000. The first part is historically orientated while the second one establishes a tentative poetics of the genre. The third part presents an analysis of some 20 plays adapted from detective fiction.
Author : Lee Horsley
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2005-08-25
ISBN 13 : 0191557897
Pages : 328 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (557 downloads)
Download Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction PDF Format Full Free by Lee Horsley and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction aims to enhance understanding of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction by examining a wide variety of the detective and crime fiction produced in Britain and America during the twentieth century. It will be of interest to anyone who enjoys reading crime fiction but is specifically designed with the needs of students in mind. It introduces different theoretical approaches to crime fiction (e.g., formalist, historicist, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, feminist) and will be a useful supplement to a range of crime fiction courses, whether they focus on historical contexts, ideological shifts, the emergence of sub-genres, or the application of critical theories. Forty-seven widely available stories and novels are chosen for detailed discussion. In seeking to illuminate the relationship between different phases of generic development Lee Horsley employs an overlapping historical framework, with sections doubling back chronologically in order to explore the extent to which successive transformations have their roots within the earlier phases of crime writing, as well as responding in complex ways to the preoccupations and anxieties of their own eras. The first part of the study considers the nature and evolution of the main sub-genres of crime fiction: the classic and hard-boiled strands of detective fiction, the non-investigative crime novel (centred on transgressors or victims), and the 'mixed' form of the police procedural. The second half of the study examines the ways in which writers have used crime fiction as a vehicle for socio-political critique. These chapters consider the evolution of committed, oppositional strategies, tracing the development of politicized detective and crime fiction, from Depression-era protests against economic injustice to more recent decades which have seen writers launching protests against ecological crimes, rampant consumerism, Reaganomics, racism, and sexism.
Author : Jane S. Bakerman
Publisher : Popular Press
Release Date : 1985
ISBN 13 : 9780879723194
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (879 downloads)
Download And Then There Were Nine-- More Women of Mystery PDF Format Full Free by Jane S. Bakerman and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the formulas of crime fiction, this collection ranges from writers Daphne du Maurier and Margery Allingham, whose names are synonymous with conventional subgenres of crime fiction, through Patricia Highsmith, and Shirley Jackson, who deliberately set conventions aside or who moved those conventions into other realms. Most important, perhaps, Jackson, Highsmith and E. X. Ferrars depict civilizations that are not essentially orderly, that are not founded upon a commonly understood concept of justice where one must make her own order."
Author : Jenny Stringer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 13 : 9780192122711
Pages : 774 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (192 downloads)
Download The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English PDF Format Full Free by Jenny Stringer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the major literary figures in the English-speaking world
Author : Earl F. Bargainnier
Publisher : Popular Press
Release Date : 1981
ISBN 13 : 9780879721732
Pages : 316 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (879 downloads)
Download 10 Women of Mystery PDF Format Full Free by Earl F. Bargainnier and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which examines the special contributions of a number of women mystery writers, sheds light on this significant example of common interests in recreational reading among women and men and the reasons behind the early and continuing uncharacteristic near-equality of both sexes in this field of endeavor.
Author : Michael L. Cook
Publisher : Popular Press
Release Date : 1983
ISBN 13 : 9780879722302
Pages : 456 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (879 downloads)
Download Mystery Fanfare PDF Format Full Free by Michael L. Cook and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a composite index of the complete runs of all mystery and detective fan magazines that have been published, through 1981. Added to it are indexes of many magazines of related nature. This includes magazines that are primarily oriented to boys' book collecting, the paperbacks, and the pulp magazine hero characters, since these all have a place in the mystery and detective genre.
Author : Amnon Kabatchnik
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2011-04-14
ISBN 13 : 0810877848
Pages : 704 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (877 downloads)
Download Blood on the Stage, 1950-1975 PDF Format Full Free by Amnon Kabatchnik and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing more than 120 full-length plays, this volume provides an overview of the most important and memorable theatrical works of crime and detection produced between 1950 and 1975.
Author : Amnon Kabatchnik
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 13 : 0810869632
Pages : 869 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (869 downloads)
Download Blood on the Stage, 1925-1950 PDF Format Full Free by Amnon Kabatchnik and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Amnon Kabatchnik provides an overview of more than 150 important and memorable theatrical works of crime and detection between 1925 and 1950. Each entry includes a plot synopsis, production data, and the opinions of well known and respected critics and scholars.
Author : Geoff Sadler
Publisher : Chicago : St. James Press
Release Date : 1991
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 888 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Twentieth-century Western Writers PDF Format Full Free by Geoff Sadler and published by Chicago : St. James Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplies a brief biography, a bibliography, and a signed statement about the writings of 485 western writers
Author : Roger M Sobin
Publisher : Poisoned Pen Press Inc
Release Date : 2011-09-30
ISBN 13 : 1615952039
Pages : 592 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (952 downloads)
Download The Essential Mystery Lists PDF Format Full Free by Roger M Sobin and published by Poisoned Pen Press Inc. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in one place, Roger M. Sobin has compiled a list of nominees and award winners of virtually every mystery award ever presented. He has also included many of the “best of” lists by more than fifty of the most important contributors to the genre.; Mr. Sobin spent more than two decades gathering the data and lists in this volume, much of that time he used to recheck the accuracy of the material he had collected. Several of the “best of” lists appear here for the first time in book form. Several others have been unavailable for a number of years.; Of special note, are Anthony Boucher’s “Best Picks for the Year.” Boucher, one of the major mystery reviewers of all time, reviewed for The San Francisco Chronicle, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The New York Times. From these resources Mr. Sobin created “Boucher’s Best” and “Important Lists to Consider,” lists that provide insight into important writing in the field from 1942 through Boucher’s death in 1968.? This is a great resource for all mystery readers and collectors.; ; Winner of the 2008 Macavity Awards for Best Mystery Nonfiction.
Author : Earl F. Bargainnier
Publisher : Popular Press
Release Date : 1986
ISBN 13 : 9780879723347
Pages : 220 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (879 downloads)
Download Cops and Constables PDF Format Full Free by Earl F. Bargainnier and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In both British and American detective fiction the police detective has emerged as a fictional protagonist. However, the American policemen have not achieved the prominence of their British counterparts. The thirteen essays in this volume indicate some of the principle elements which appear again and again in both British and American police procedurals.
Author : Barbara Ripp Safford
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Release Date : 1998
ISBN 13 : 9781563085451
Pages : 382 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (563 downloads)
Download Guide to Reference Materials for School Library Media Centers PDF Format Full Free by Barbara Ripp Safford and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists the various reference materials that librarians can use to expand their school's library media centers; includes a brief description, price, and contact information for each book.
Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1990-01-01
ISBN 13 : 9780520079922
Pages : 868 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (52 downloads)
Download A Reference Guide for English Studies PDF Format Full Free by Michael J. Marcuse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is an introduction to the full range of standard reference tools in all branches of English studies. More than 10,000 titles are included. The Reference Guide covers all the areas traditionally defined as English studies and all the field of inquiry more recently associated with English studies. British and Irish, American and world literatures written in English are included. Other fields covered are folklore, film, literary theory, general and comparative literature, language and linguistics, rhetoric and composition, bibliography and textual criticism and women's studies.
