A Common Spring: Crime Novel and ClassicPopular Press, 1979 - 271 páginas Nadya Aisenberg discusses the potentialities of the crime novel, its implications, principles, and scope, and its analogy of myth and the fairy tale. She proposes that the detective story and the thriller have made an unacknowledged contribution to "serious" literature. Her discussion of Dickens, Conrad, and Green indicate that each borrowed many important ingredients from the formulaic novel. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
CHAPTER I | 8 |
MYTH FAIRYTALE AND THE CRIME NOVEL | 16 |
Excerpt from The Tangled Bank Stanley Hyman | 55 |
DICKENS AND THE CRIME NOVEL | 68 |
JOSEPH CONRAD AND THE THRILLER | 111 |
GRAHAM GREENE AND THE MODERN THRILLER168 | 168 |
CONCLUSION | 223 |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 247 |
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