A bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

Detective Fiction (Crime fiction / Police fiction)

Amey, Claude. "Le roman policier comme jurifiction." In Dramaxes. Ed. Denis Mellier and Luc Ruiz. Fontenay: ENS, 1995. 71-82.*

Auden, W. H. "The Guilty Vicarage: Notes on the Detective Story, by an Addict." In Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays. New York, 1962.

Boileau-Narcejac. Le Roman policier. 1975. 3rd ed. Paris: PUF, 1988.

Bravo, Maria Elena. "Literatura de la distensión: el elemento policíaco." Insula 41.472 (March 1986).

Calhoon, Kenneth S. "The Detective and the Witch: Local Knowledge and the Aesthetic Pre-History of Detection." Comparative Literature 47.4 (Fall 1995): 307-329.*

Cañadas Rodríguez, Emilio (coord.), Margarita Rigal Aragón. "El relato policiaco: Reflexiones sobre su evolución en el tiempo." In At a Time of Crisis: English and American Studies in Spain: Works from the 35th AEDEAN Conference, UAB/Barcelona 14-16 November 2011. Ed. Sara Martín et al. Barcelona: Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanística, U Autònoma de Barcelona / AEDEAN, 2012. 206-209.*

http://www.aedean.org/pdf_atatimecrisis/AtaTimeofCrisis_AEDEAN35_portada.pdf

2012

_____. "La ciencia-ficción y el ciberpunk." Trans. Óscar Jiménez. In Literatura y cibercultura. Ed. Domingo Sánchez-Mesa. Madrid: Arco/Libros, 2004. 235-68.*

Chernaik, Warren, Martin Swales and Robert Vilain. The Art of Detective Fiction. Houndmills: Macmillan / Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Studies, U of London, 2000.

Christian, Ed., ed. The Postcolonial Detective. (Crime Files). Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.

Christianson, Scott R. "Tough Talk and Wisecracks: Language as Power in American Detective Fiction." Journal of Popular Culture 23.2 (Fall 1989).

_____. "Tough Talk and Wisecracks: Language as Power in American Detective Fiction." In Gender, Language, and Myth. Ed. Glenwood Irons. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1992. 142-56.*

Clark, Urszula and Sonia Zyngier. "Women beware Women: Detective Fiction and Critical Discourse Stylistics." Language and Literature 7.2 (June 1998): 141-158.

Cobley, Paul. The American Thriller: Generic Innovation and Social Change in the 1970's. (Crime Files). Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.

Colin, Jean-Paul. Le Roman policier français archaïque, un essai de lecture groupée. Bern: Peter Lang, 1984.

Couégnas, Daniel. "Du Voleur de visage (1904) au Mystérieux docteur Cornélius (1912-13). Ecriture, réécriture, édition et lectured'une série romanesque populaire." Protée 17.2.

_____. "Les rivaux malheureux de Lupin; lecture de l'aventure policière dans la revue Je Sais Tout (1905-1914)." In Dramaxes. Ed. Denis Mellier and Luc Ruiz. Fontenay: ENS, 1995. 197-214.*

Couturier, Maurice. "Récits d'enquête." In Couturier, Nabokov, ou la tyrannie de l'auteur. Paris: Seuil, 1993. 155-200.*

Delamater, Jerome H., and Ruth Prigozy, eds. Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction. (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, 62). Westport (CT): Greenwood P, 1997.*

Dilley, Kimberly J. Busybodies, Meddlers, and Snoops: The Female Hero in Contemporary Women's Mysteries. (Contributions in Women's Studies, 166). Westport (CT): Greenwood Press, 1998.*

Eco, Umberto, and Thomas A. Sebeok, eds. The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1983.

Eisenzweig, Uri. Le Récit impossible: Forme et sens du Roman Policier. Paris: Bourgois, 1986.

Franco Aixelá, Javier, and Carlos Abio Villarig. "Manipulación ideológica y traducción: Atenuación e intensificación moral en la traducción de la novela negra norteamericana al español (1933-2001)." Hermeneus 11 (2009): 109-44.*

Frank, Lawrence (Emeritus Prof. of English, U of Oklahoma). Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence. (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture). Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.

Giddey, E. Crime et détection: Essai sur les structures du roman policier de langue anglaise. 1990.

Gillis, Stacy. Crime Fiction. (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature). Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, forthcoming 2010.

Gillis, Stacy, and Philippa Gates, eds. The Devil Himself: Villainy in Detective Fiction and Film. (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, 73). Westport (CT): Greenwood Press, 2002.*

Gladfelder, Hal. "4. Defoe and Criminal Fiction." In The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe. Ed. John Richetti. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008. 64-83.*

González-Moreno, Beatriz. "Approaching the Dupin-Holmes (or Poe-Doyle) Controversy." In A Descent into Edgar Allan Poe and His Works: The Bicentennial. Ed. Beatriz González Moreno and Margarita Rigal Aragón. Bern: Peter Lang, 2010. 59-78.*

Greene, Hugh. The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. Essay. 1970.

_____. Los rivales de Sherlock Holmes.  2 vols.  Ediciones de Bolsillo.

Haycraft, Howard. Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story. New York: Appleton, 1941.

Henríquez Jiménez, Santiago J. Géneros en contacto. Viajes, crimen, novela femenina y humor. Miscelánea de literatura inglesa y norteamericana. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria / La Caja de Canarias, 2004.

Herald, Diana Tixier. Genreflecting: A Guide to Reading Interests in Genre Fiction. Englewood (Colorado): Libraries Unlimited, 1982. 5^th ed. 2000.* (Historical novel, Westerns, Detective fiction, adventure, SF, fantasy, romance, horror).

Holquist, Michael. "Whodunnit and Other Questions: Metaphysical Detective Stories in Post-War Fiction." New Literary History 3.1 (1971): 135-56.

Hughes, Winifred. The Maniac in the Cellar. Princeton (NJ), 1980.

Hühn, Peter. "Zu den Gründen für die Popularität des Detektivromans: Eine Untersuchung von Thesen über die Motive seiner Rezeption." Arcadia 12 (1977): 273-296.

_____. "The Detective as Reader: Narrativity and Reading Concepts in Detective Fiction." Modern Fiction Studies 33 (1987): 451-466.

_____. "Der Detektiv als Leser. Narrativität und Lesekonzepte in der Detektivliteratur." In Der Kriminalroman: Poetik - Theorie – Geschichte. Ed. Jochen Vogt. München: Fink, 1998. 239-254 [Trans. of "The Detective as Reader", MFS 1987]

_____. "The Politics of Secrecy and Publicity: The Functions of Hidden Stories in Recent British Mystery Fiction." In Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction. Ed. Jerome H. Delamater and Ruth Prigozy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. 39-50.

_____. "The Crime Novels of Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell: Reflections on a Genre." Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 33 (2000): 17-30.

_____. "Mimetic Desire: An Attempt to Explain the Plot Structure of Detective Fiction." Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 44 (2003): 337-352.

Humm, Maggie. "Legal Aliens: Feminist Detective Fiction." In Humm, Border Traffic. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1991. 185-211.*

Hutcheon, Linda. "Actualizing Narrative Structures: Detective Plot, Fantasy, Games, and the Erotic." In Hutcheon, Narcissistic Narrative. London: Routledge, 1984. 71-86.

Irons, Glenwood. "New Women Detectives: G is for Gender-Bending.' In Gender, Language, and Myth. Ed. Glenwood Irons. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1992. 127-41.*

James, P. D. Talking about Detective Fiction. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2009.*

James, P. D., and Joan Smith. "A Question of Crime." Interview. In New Writing 2. Ed. Malcolm Bradbury and Andrew Motion. London: Mandarin, 1993.*

John, Juliet., ed. Cult Criminals: The Newgate Novels. 1998.

Keating, H. R. F. Writing Crime Fiction. London: Black.

Kern, Stephen. A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought. Princeton (NJ): Princeton UP, 2004. Pbk. 2006.* (1. Ancestry. 2. Childhood. 3. Language. 4. Sexuality. 5. Emotion. 6. Mind. 7. Society. 8. Ideas).

Kestner, Joseph A. Sherlock's Men. Masculinity, Conan Doyle and Cultural History. Ashgate, 1997

Lacey, Nick. "Film Noir and 'Hard-boiled' Crime Novels: The Repertoire of Elements." In Lacey, Narrative and Genre. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000. 143-63.*

Lavagetto, Mario. Lavorare con piccoli indizi. Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2003. (Detectives and psychoanalysis).

Lebrun, Michel, and Jean-Paul Schweighaeuser. Le Guide du Polar: Histoire du roman policier. Paris: Syros, 1987.

López Fernández, María Deseada. "'Walking with a Thesis': Detective Fiction as a Sub-Text in Iain Sinclair's White Chapell, Scarlet Tracings." In Proceedings of the 29th AEDEAN Conference: Universidad de Jaén 15 al 20 diciembre 2005. CD-ROM. Ed. Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes et al. Jaén: AEDEAN / Servicio de Publicaciones U de Jaén, 2006. 393-99.*

Lous, Alexandre. "Dames noires." Magazine littéraire 286 (1991): 83.

Lutas, Liviu. "Narrative Metalepsis in Detective Fiction." In Metalepsis in Popular Culture. Ed. Karin Kukkonen and Sonja Klimek. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2011. 41-64.*

Malmgren, Carl D. Anatomy of Murder: Mystery, Detective, and Crime fiction. 2001.

Mandel, Ernest. Delightful Murder: A Social History of the Crime Story. Bristol: Pluto Press, 1984.

Marling, William. (Case Western Reserve U). "Detective Novels: An Overview."

2011

Mellier, Denis. "L'énigmatique contemporaine du récit policier." In Dramaxes. Ed. Denis Mellier and Luc Ruiz. Fontenay: ENS, 1995. 97-112.*

Melling, John Kennedy. Murder Done to Death: Parody and Pastiche in Detective Fiction. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1996.*

Merivale, Patricia, and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, eds. Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1999.*

Miller, Kristine A. "Case Closed: Scapegoating in British Women's Wartime Detective Fiction." In The Devil Himself: Villainy in Detective Fiction and Film. Ed. Stacy Gillis and Philippa Gates. Westport (CT): Greenwood Press, 2002. 91-106.*

Morland, Nigel. How to Write Detective Novels.  1937.

Munt, Sally Rowena. Murder by the Book? Feminism and the Crime Novel.  London: Routledge, 1994.

Navajas, Gonzalo. "Género y contragénero policíaco en La rosa de Alejandría de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán." In Navajas, Teoría y práctica de la novela española posmoderna. Barcelona: Edicions del Mall, 1987. 153-70.*

Pardo, Pedro Javier. "The Hermeneutic Code in Classical Detective Fiction: Doyle, Chesterton, Christie." XVI Congreso de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. Valladolid: Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid, 1994. 335-46.

Phillips, Bill. "Religious Belief in Recent Detective Fiction." Atlantis 36.1 (2014): 139-51.*

Priestman, Martin. Detective Fiction and Literature: The Figure on the Carpet. 1990.

_____. Crime Fiction from Poe to the Present. (Writers and Their Work). Plymouth: Northcote House / British Council, 1998.*

Quiller-Couch, A. T. "The Poor Little Penny Dreadful." (Crime Fiction). In Quiller-Couch, Adventures in Criticism. London: Cassell, 1896. 288-94.

Rafferty, Terrence. "Why Women Are Writing the Best Crime Novels." The Atlantic (July-Aug. 2016).*

2016

Rowland, Susan. Six Queens of Crime. (Crime Files). Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000. (Christie, Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, P. D. James, Ruth Rendell).

Saint-Gelais, R. "Rudiments de lecture policière." Revue Belge de philologie et d'histoire 75.3 (1997): 789-804.

Santaulària, Isabel. "Un estudio en negro: la ficción de detectives anglosajona, de sus orígenes a la actualidad." In Género y cultura popular. Ed Isabel Clúa. Bellaterra: Edicions UAB, 2008.

Shaw Fairman, Patricia. "Characteristics and Conventions of the English Detective Novel." Estudios de Filología Inglesa 6 (Universidad de Cordoba, 1984): 125-34.

Seltzer, Mark. True Crime.

Smith, Erin A. Hard-Boiled: Working Class Readers and Pulp Magazines. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2000.*

Spanos, William V. "The Detective and the Boundary: Some Notes on the Postmodern Literary Imagination." boundary 2 2.1 (1972): 147-68.

_____. "The Detective and the Boundary: Some Notes on the Postmodern Literary Imagination." Rpt. as Ch. 1 of Spanos, Repetitions: The Postmodern Occasion in Literature and Culture. 13-49.*

_____. From "The Detective and the Boundary: Some Notes on the Postmodern Literary Imagination." In Postmodernism: A Reader. Ed. Patricia Waugh. London: Routledge, 1992. 79-86.*

Tani, Stefano. The Doomed Detective: The Contribution of the Detective Novel to Postmodern American and Italian Fiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1984.

Todorov, Tzvetan. "Typologie du roman policier." In Todorov, Poétique de la prose. Paris, Seuil, 1971. 55-65.

_____. "The Typology of Detective Fiction." In Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. Ed. David Lodge. London: Longman, 1988. 157-65.*

_____. Poétique de la prose. (Poétique). Paris: Seuil, 1971.

_____. Poétique de la prose (choix), suivi de Nouvelles Recherches sur le récit. (Points: Littérature, 120). Paris: Seuil, 1978.*

_____. The Poetics of Prose. Trans. Richard Howard. Ithaca: Cornell UP; Oxford: Blackwell, 1977.

_____. Poétique de la prose (choix), suivi de Nouvelles Recherches sur le récit. (Points: Littérature, 120). Paris: Seuil, 1978.*

_____. The Poetics of Prose. Trans. Richard Howard. Ithaca: Cornell UP; Oxford: Blackwell, 1977.

Thomas, Ronald R.. "The Fingerprint of the Foreigner: Colonizing the Criminal Body in 1890s. Detective Fiction and Criminal Anthropology." ELH (1994).*

_____. Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science. (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture 26). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.*

Van Herp, Jacques. Harry Dickson. (Ides... et autres, Essais). Bruxelles: Recto-Verso, 1981.

Vázquez de Parga, Salvador. La novela policiaca en España. Barcelona, 1993.

Vogt, Jochen. Der Kriminalroman: Poetik - Theorie – Geschichte. Ed. Jochen Vogt. München: Fink, 1998.

Walker, Ronald G., and June M. Frazer, eds. The Cunning Craft: Original Essays on Detective Fiction and Contemporary Literary Theory.

Wark, Wesley K., ed. Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence. London: Frank Cass, 1991.

Xanthos, Nicolas. "Raconter dans le crépuscule du héros. Fragilités narratives dans le roman d'enquête contemporain." In La transmission narrative: Modalités du pacte romanesque contemporain. Ed. Frances Fortier and Andrée Mercier. Canada: Nota Bene, 2011. 111-26.*

Yates, Donald A. "Introducción." In El cuento policial latinoamericano. Mexico: Eds. de Andrea, 1964.

_____. "El cuento policial latino americano." En Teoría cuentística del siglo XX. (Aproximaciones hispánicas). Ed. Catharina de Vallejo. Barcelona: Editorial Vosgos,1989. 205-12.

Anthologies

_____. Twelve English Detective Stories. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.*

Hillerman, Tony, and Rosemary Herbert, eds. The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories. New York: Oxford UP, 1996.

Jesse, F. Tennyson, ed. The Baffle Book. Crime fiction. London: Hogarth, 198-?

Nolan, William F., ed. The "Black Mask" Boys: Masters in the Hard-Boiled School of Detective Fiction. New York: Morrow, 1985.

Pulp Fiction: The Crimefighters, an Omnibus. Introd. Harlan Coben. (Dashiell Hammett, Earle Stanley Gardner, Cornel Woolrich, Raymond Chandler, Frederick Nebel, Paul Cain, Carroll John Daly, George Harmon Coxe, Charles Booth, Leslie White, William Rollins, Norbert Davis, Horace McCoy, Thomas Walsh).

Queen, Ellery, ed. Literature of Crime. 1952.

Santamaría, J., and P. Alonso, eds. Antología del relato policial. Trans. by Gabriel Casas, J. L. López Muñoz, F. Torres Oliver, Helena Valentí, Javier Vico. Illust. by Tha. (Aula de Literatura, 7). Barcelona: Vicens Vives, 1991. 2nd ed. 2002.*

Sayers, Dorothy L., ed. Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror. 1928.

Thwing, Eugene, ed. The World's Best 100 Detective Stories. Vol. 2.. New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1927.

Bibliography

Journals
Enigmatika 8 (1977).

Literature

Prizes

Series

OULI(PO)PO (Ouvroir de Littérature Policière Potentielle).