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A Counter-History of Crime FictionRevising the Canon of Crime and Detection

A Counter-History of Crime Fiction: Revising the Canon of Crime and Detection [As Hayden White claimed in Metahistory, every historical account combines a certain number of ‘data’ with ‘a narrative structure for their presentation’.1 So let us now adopt this ‘metahistorical’ perspective and briefly examine the traditional accounts of the development of detective fiction to uncover the underlying narratives.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Counter-History of Crime FictionRevising the Canon of Crime and Detection

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
ISBN
978-0-230-59462-3
Pages
1 –13
DOI
10.1057/9780230234536_1
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Abstract

[As Hayden White claimed in Metahistory, every historical account combines a certain number of ‘data’ with ‘a narrative structure for their presentation’.1 So let us now adopt this ‘metahistorical’ perspective and briefly examine the traditional accounts of the development of detective fiction to uncover the underlying narratives.]

Published: Oct 9, 2015

Keywords: Literary Form; Traditional Account; Normative View; Critical Work; Binary Opposition

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