Autor
J. Muriel Moore
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Aktuelle Bücher The Corpse as Narrative Object in Hardboiled Detective Fiction
The Corpse as Narrative Object in Hardboiled Detective Fiction
This book examines how the representation of objects, specifically dead bodies, functions as the motivating force of hardboiled detective fiction narratives. Conducting a semi-interactive autopsy into the body in and of the genre, the author deploys several theoretical frames including narratology, body-as-text theory, object theory, reader-response theory, formalism, and genre theory to demonstrate the significance of objects, symbols, and things in narrative.