Cl 48B: Detective Fiction, Spring 2017 Hande Tekdemir
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| CL 48B: Detective Fiction, Spring 2017
Hande Tekdemir, hande.tekdemir@boun.edu.tr Office hours: Wednesday 12:00-13:50 & by appointment Course Objectives: Starting with an examination of initial examples of the detective figure in literature, this class will interrogate the narrative conventions of detective fiction as a literary expression of aesthetic, political, and cultural values in different contexts. Under what conditions and using what type of literary techniques did the detective figure emerge, and how is he perpetuated in various literary traditions? Firstly, we will pay attention to the genre’s potential for the critique of the modern world. To that end, we will consider the most common and obvious characteristic of the detective figures created in different socio-historical contexts: dissatisfaction with the contemporary condition because of corruption, urban crime etc., and a longing for the past when the social conditions were much better than the present. Indeed, nostalgia has long been generically associated with detective fiction. How does detective fiction, particularly the counter-modern aspect of the genre, evolve in different cultures and historical periods? In asking these questions, our ultimate purpose will be to incite discussion on the genealogy of the detective fiction that has originated in American and English literatures; yet found controversial voices among various other examples from world literature.
other in-class activities) Quizzes (there will be no make-up for quizzes) % 20 Discussion Questions % 10 Midterm Paper % 25 Final % 30 Schedule of Readings: Week 1: Feb. 7-10 Tzvetan Todorov, “The Typology of Detective Fiction” Continental Tradition: The Armchair Detective and Ratiocination Week 2: Feb. 14-17 Edgar Allan Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” Stephen Rachman, “Poe and the origins of detective fiction”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Speckled Band,” “The Man with the Twisted Lip” Franco Moretti, “Clues” in Signs Taken For Wonders
P.D. James, Cover Her Face American hardboiled tradition: Violence, Film noir and Neo-noir Week 5: March 7-10 Dashiel Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (novel) Week 6: March 14-17 Films: John Huston, The Maltese Falcon; Howard Hawks, The Big Sleep; Roman Polanski, Chinatown Fredric Jameson, “On Raymond Chandler” (*subject to change*)
Barbara Nadel (*subject to change) Week 8: March 28-31 Barbara Nadel Week 9: April 4-7 TBA
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