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Chargement... Watteau's Shepherds: The Detective Novel in Britain 1914-1940par Leroy Panek
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is a series of essays on the 'writers of the "Golden Age" of Anglo-American mysteries, trying to define the characteristics of the genre more concretely than has been done in the past. After a general introduction on the defining qualities of the mysteries of the period, it shifts to a sequence of discussions of individual writers --E.C. Bentley, Agatha Christie, A.A. Milne (for The Red House Mystery) Dorothy Sayers, Anthony Berkeley Cox (writing as Anthony Berkeley), Margery Allingham, John Dickson Carr, and Ngaio Marsh. I don't always agree with it, but the writer knows the books of that era well and has clever things to say about them. ( ) For me the best book on the English detective novel of the Golden Age, though I vehemently disagree with his seeing Freeman Wills Crofts and John Rhode only as hangers-on. For the sake of the argument that the English detective story is best understood as a reaction against the thrillers of Le Queux, Oppenheim, Buchan etc. Panek marginalizes an important part of this tradition. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Detective stories should be examined from a literary point of view, with special attention to literary history and to materials and patterns from which the writers created their fictions. This book sheds new light into the fascinating field of detective fiction. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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