Crime Fiction

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Description of crime fiction and its kinds in literature

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CRIME FICTION: 

CRIME FICTION

DEFINITION :: 

DEFINITION : The genre of crime fiction has mystery as its key element. The mystery and its solution by rationality and the careful accretion of evidence may be the primary focus of the text. This invites the responder’s active involvement in the deduction of the solution to the crime. The genre deals with crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives.

History of crime fiction :: 

History of crime fiction : Victorian Detective Fiction American Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction, 1920s-1940s  British Noir after Golden Age Brit Grit: the 1970s revival of the British noir thriller Contemporary American Crime Fiction

The First Examples :: 

The First Examples : "The murder of machine operator Rolfsen" (1839) by Norwegian Mauritz Hansen "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) "The Mystery of Marie Roget" (1842) "The Purloined Letter" (1844) by Edgar Allan Poe “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle

The First Detectives :: 

The First Detectives : Dupin - the first ‘modern’ detective Popular Success: Sherlock Holmes Holmes says : “This link, between the values of a society and the methods and values of its crime solvers, has endured in crime fiction ever since.”

The Solver As A Private Eye: 

The Solver As A Private Eye

American Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction, 1920s-1940s : 

American Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction, 1920s-1940s 

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Raymond Chandler wrote that the 'smell of fear' generated by such stories was evidence of their serious response to the modern condition: ‘Their characters lived in a world gone wrong, a world in which, long before the atom bomb, civilization had created the machinery for its own destruction and was learning to use it with all the moronic delight of a gangster trying out his first machine-gun. The law was something to be manipulated for profit and power. The streets were dark with something more than night.’

An Introduction to British Noir: 

An Introduction to British Noir

The Conventions of Detective Fiction: 

The Conventions of Detective Fiction The sleuth-hero A detailed, plausible setting A crime or crimes to be solved A denouement Dangerous situations