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Detective Fiction

Undergraduate

Fall 2021

Topics

  • Detective-fiction origins
  • Narrative structure and time
  • Film noir and hard-boiled fiction
  • Variations on detective conventions

Readings

  • The Murder at the Vicarage
    Agatha Christie · HarperCollins, 2011 · unspecified
  • Tzvetan Todorov — The Typology of Detective Fiction
    unspecified
  • Franco Moretti — The Slaughterhouse of Literature
    unspecified
  • Raymond Chandler — Mountain
    unspecified
  • Walter Mosley — Smoke
    unspecified
  • The Maltese Falcon (1941 film).
    unspecified
  • Prime Suspect, series 1; True Detective (television).
    unspecified
Sources