Contemporary Academic Mystery Novel

A Study in Genre

AvElżbieta Perkowska-Gawlik,Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Del 19 i serien Mediated Fictions

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Beskrivning

The book focuses on contemporary staff-centred mystery novels set in the academic domain, written by scholars who enrich the generic convention of the detective novel with their academic expertise. The author delineates the academic mystery genre conventions and their connection with the characteristics of both the classical detective novel and the academic (university) novel. The analysis shows that the academic mystery novel not only fills in the classical detective formula with academic discourse, university settings, and the characters and conflicts of academics from different echelons of the university hierarchy but also, and more importantly, refers to and comments upon the current situation of tertiary education.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-08-24
Mått:148 x 210 x 22 mm
Vikt:422 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Mediated Fictions
Antal sidor:270
Förlag:Peter Lang AG
ISBN:9783631852538

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Mer om författaren

Elżbieta Perkowska-Gawlik is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin. Her main research interests include academic and crime fiction, utopianism, narratology and cognitive analysis. She has published on contemporary British and American academic novels and utopian narratives.

Innehållsförteckning

The academic mystery novel as detective fiction, academic fiction, and meta-educational fiction – Metafictional and intertextual games in the academic mystery novel – Academics as characters of detective fiction – The academic gender gap