The Redefinition of the Modern Japanese Detective Genre and Edogawa-Ranpo : Noticing on the Transition from ‘hentai’ to ‘erotic･grotesque’ Around 1930

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 249-273
Author(s):  
Jung-Sun Han ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Detective Genre

Sex/Knowledge/Power in the Detective Genre

1989 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Sex Knowledge ◽  
Detective Genre

scholarly journals Between Reason and Madness

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso Macedo Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Detective Genre

This paper analyses intertextuality between two novels, Juan José Saer’s La pesquisa and Ricardo Piglia’s Blanco nocturno, in the context of detective fiction, that both writers explore in their narrative. The paper is divided in four parts: “Cruces introductorios” is an introductory form to produce connections between the most important authors of the last quarter of 20th-century Argentine; in “Primeros rastros” communicating vases are set between both poetics in detective genre; in “Subgéneros policiales” some important aspects of La pesquisa and Blanco nocturno are analysed while some differences are identified: the first work belongs to enigma novel and the last work connects with hard boiled; finally, the paper analyses Detective Morvan and Detective Croce aiming at identifying opposite pairs: intelligence and dementia, reason and madness, civilisation and barbarism. Thus, these concepts are establishing new relationships between Saer and Piglia based on their approaches to detective genre and their criticism to capitalist system.

scholarly journals Amândoi by Liviu Rebreanu: multicultural settings and sources of suspense

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-110
Author(s):  
Lucian Vasile Bagiu
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Common People ◽  
Continuous Increase ◽  
Multicultural Context ◽  
Romanian Literature ◽  
Detective Genre ◽  
Multilingual Approach

The article looks into the multicultural settings of Liviu Rebreanu’s novel “Amândoi” (Both) by briefly examining the representation of its main, minor or incidental characters, either intelligentsia or common people. Ethnicity, social and professional statuses are considered as elements of multiculturalism. The continuous increase of suspense, the open ending, the parody in the undertone, and the development of the intrigue in an original multicultural context are presented further on. The various rumours arising from the townspeople’s own hypotheses about the murders of the aged Dăniloiu provide the opportunity to present the detective genre, which Rebreanu introduced in Romanian literature, suggesting a disguised satire of the type. The archaisms and the regional words of the novel are laboriously registered and underlined in terms of usage, etymology and linguistic connectivity, with the purpose of showing the multicultural flavour by means of a multilingual approach. The essay indicates that all characters use archaisms and local words, notwithstanding their social status or aspirations, a detail that puts in perspective the cultural configuration of the provincial town life, which Rebreanu is very aware of.

scholarly journals Detective Genre in the West and in Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 315
Author(s):  
Olga Osmukhina ◽  
Svetlana Gudkova
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Detective Genre

scholarly journals Invensi dalam Genre Detektif

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Viona Rizky Handayani ◽  
Diana Puspitasari ◽  
Hartati Hartati
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Action Pattern ◽  
Stray Dogs ◽  
Data Analysis Technique ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Detective Genre ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The purpose of this research to describe the detective formulas in Japanese anime produced in the period 2014-2016, including Meitantei Konan I Jigen no, Ryuugajou Nanana No Maizoukin, Sniper Psycho-Pass : The Movie ( Gekijou-ban Psycho-Pass ), Ghost In The Shell, Meitantei Konan Junkoku no Naitomea, and Bungou Stray Dogs Season 1. The method used was descriptive qualitative with literary formula approach based on Cawelti. The data analysis technique uses were observing recording and classifying data. The results of this study show that there were 132 data with detective action pattern conventions consisting of six phases and four roles. That are 1) introduction of detectives, 2) crime and guidance, 3) investigation, 4) announcement of solution, 5) solution explanation, 6) end of story. In addition, these four roles are those who are exposed to the threat of 1) victims, 2) criminals, 3) detectives, and 4) crimes, but cannot resolve them. Then, it was found that the ending of the story was an archetypal invention in the anime Ryuugajou Nanana No Maizoukin, while the other five anime had archetypal conventions according to Cawelti's theory.  In addition, in this study, it was found that there is a formula invention that occurs in every detective anime. The form of invention in detective anime is to add a supernatural formula to the storyline. Based on the results of data analysis, the conclusion is that the six animes contain the rules and inventions of the formula detective genre. Formula conventions and inventions occur as the audience becomes more interested in the genre. The more popular a particular genre, the more conventions and inventions as a development of formulas and archetypes.

‘I simply write it to order’: L. T. Meade, Sisters of Sherlock, and the Strand Magazine

2019 ◽  
pp. 470-482
Author(s):  
Clare Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Market Trends ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Detective Genre

Clare Clarke’s essay illuminates the adroit professionalism of the Irish author, journalist, and editor L. T. Meade (1844–1914) in the context of the extensive catalogue of detective fiction she contributed to the Strand Magazine (1891–1950). Meade’s foray into the detective genre followed an enormously successful period of writing novels for girls, as well as a stint at editing the girls’ magazine Atalanta (1887–98). As Clarke demonstrates, this radical departure from her literary focus on girls’ print culture is indicative of Meade’s ‘market acuity, her ability to produce precisely those genres which were in demand by periodical editors–in her own terms, her ability to give a literary editor “what his public want[s]”’ (p. 474). Meade’s talent for tapping into market trends and producing copy that catered to the tastes of readers ultimately secured her position as a regular contributor in the male-dominated Strand Magazine.

FROM PERIPHERY TO CENTRE: EXPLORING GENDERED NARRATIVES IN SELECT FICTIONS OF SUCHITRA BHATTACHARYA

Ensemble ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
Sagarika Rajbanshi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Discursive Power ◽  
Detective Genre ◽  
The Web ◽  
Female Perspective ◽  
Female Experience

The issue of women empowerment breaking the boundaries of patriarchy is the locus of the narrative based on the female experience. The representation of the female perspective in a narrative constructs an alternative discursive narrative, different from that of the male narrative. And once, when the perspective is changed, the whole narrative got changed. Suchitra Bhattacharya's lady detective fiction based on detective Mitin aka Pragyaparamita Mukherjee introduces detective literature from female experience, quite unlike the conventional detective genre, exploring gendered experience in terms of intelligence and its relation with the discourse of power. These fictions encode female experience within the web of the narrative, opening the door of a new prospect towards detective literature. The lady detective literature, as it was developed, was resistance against the male narrative of the detective literature and the subverted female presentation of it. It brings forward the women agency that was previously denied by patriarchy and reconstitutes the ways of interpreting a text incorporating women in the center. The narrative establishes and celebrates the thinking capability of women negated in the male narrative. Henceforth, the argument is how and to what extent the female narrative achieves its hold over discursive power, and succeeds in bringing up a whole new thread by subverting the discursive narrative of the androgenous stratum.

scholarly journals GRAMMAR OF THE DETECTIVE GENRE

2020 ◽  
pp. 037
Author(s):  
Dejan Milutinović
Keyword(s):  
Reading Experience ◽  
Crime Investigation ◽  
Detective Genre

The paper describes the grammar of the detective genre. This is done on the basis of formalist-structuralist poetics, by extracting the actants of detective syntax. It involves: the plot, enigma, secret, solution, crime, and the detective. The plot is determined both on the basis of the main stages of the detective narrative (crime, investigation, explanation) and depending on the reader's reading experience. An enigma is the absence of information about someone/something, but it is also part of the plot - it hides events which led to a specific crime. The secret is connected with the enigma and concerns both the crime and the detective. The solution is considered by many to be the most important feature of the detective genre, which has a distinctly ideological character. A crime is a motive, not a goal - it happens outside the text, and is transmitted through the text. The detective is a distinctive figure of this genre, determined by intellectual and scientific abilities, but also by eccentricity and fragmentation.

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