The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction
By:"Joyce G. Saricks"
Published on 2014-05-14 by American Library Association
This revised edition provides a way of understanding the vast universe of genre fiction in an easy-to-use format. Expert readers' advisor Joyce Saricks offers groundbreaking reconsideration of the connections among genres.
This Book was ranked 20 by Google Books for keyword techno thrillers.
Thank you for visiting my book reviews blog!The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy
By:"Gary Westfahl"
Published on 2005 by Greenwood Publishing Group
A comprehensive three-volume reference work offers six hundred entries, with the first two volumes covering themes and the third volume exploring two hundred classic works in literature, television, and film.
This Book was ranked 23 by Google Books for keyword techno thrillers.
Thank you for visiting my book reviews blog!How to Write Killer Fiction
By:"Carolyn Wheat"
Published on 2011-06-01 by SCB Distributors
Writing is all about creating an experience for the reader. Whether you're giving them a brain-teasing puzzle or an adrenaline-soaked emotional roller coaster-ride, this book helps you shape your fiction to create maximum enjoyment for your readers. Now you can learn the craft directly from one of the most respected contemporary writers in the field, Carolyn What, winner of multitudinous awards and nominations. What knows what editors want, and shows you how to achieve your writing an publishing goals. How To Write Killer Fiction is a handbook that no writer of mystery or suspense can afford to be without.
This Book was ranked 36 by Google Books for keyword techno thrillers.
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By:"Neil McCaw"
Published on 2011-01-20 by A&C Black
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This Book was ranked 19 by Google Books for keyword Detective.
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By:"Charles J. Rzepka","Lee Horsley"
Published on 2010-01-21 by John Wiley & Sons
A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography
This Book was ranked 6 by Google Books for keyword psycho thrillers.
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By:"Kathleen Gregory Klein"
Published on 1999-01-01 by Popular Press
The first collection to articulate the pedagogical strategies of using detective fiction to investigate the politics of difference. The volume examines the many ways in which diversity is posited by contemporary writers exploring distinctive American subcultures. The distinguishing characteristic of the book is its mix of essays focusing on teaching cultural diversity in the classroom and illustrating diversity through fiction to the general reader. Among the issues addressed are definitions of diversity; what constitutes ethnicity or race, especially in terms of multiple subjectivities; how race, gender, and ethnicity are culturally constructed; and what part is played by identity politics.
This Book was ranked 23 by Google Books for keyword Detective.
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By:"Charles J. Rzepka"
Published on 2005-09-30 by Polity
Detective Fiction is a clear and compelling look at some of the best known, yet least–understood, characters and texts of the modern day. Charles J. Rzepka traces the history of the genre from its modern beginnings in the early eighteenth century, with the criminal broadsheets and ′true′ crime stories of The Newgate Calendar, to its present state of diversity, innovation, and worldwide diffusion, in a manner that students and scholars alike will find readable and provocative. The book focuses particularly on the relationship of detective fiction′s emerging ′puzzle–element′ to the investigative methods of the nascent historical sciences, and to popular cultural attitudes toward history, particularly in Great Britain and the United States. In addition, the author examines the specific impact of urbanization, the rise of the professions, brain science, legal and social reform, war and economic dislocation, class–consciousness, and changing concepts of race and gender. Extended close readings of the classics of Detective Fiction in several ′Casebook′ essays devoted to seminal works by Poe, Doyle, Sayers, and Chandler show in detail how the genre has responded to these influences over the last century and a half. They also serve to introduce students to a variety of current critical approaches. Undergraduate students of Detective and Crime Fiction and of genre fiction in general, will find this book essential reading. ′Cool, savvy, and utterly compelling: every page of Charles J. Rzepka′s magnificent history of detective fiction displays the forensic panache of the true connoisseur of murder. Commanding an unrivalled breadth of reference and depth of insight, the book is a must–read for everyone interested in detective fiction.′ Nicholas Roe, University of St Andrews ′In this sustained analysis of the emergence and development of detective fiction in England and America, Charles Rzepka has produced both a compelling cultural history and a skilful demonstration of what Poe aptly called \
This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword Detective.
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By:"Jerome Delamater","Ruth Prigozy"
Published on 1998 by Greenwood Publishing Group
These essays investigate the detective in American popular culture, from Raymond Chandler's hardboiled Philip Marlowe to TV's maternal Jessica Fletcher.
This Book was ranked 26 by Google Books for keyword Detective.
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