A Common Spring

A Common Spring PDF Author: Nadya Aisenberg
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879721428
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Book Description
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.