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The Contemporary Academic Mystery Novel: A Study in Genre

The Contemporary Academic Mystery Novel: A Study in Genre

Hardcover

Series: Mediated Fictions, Book 19

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631852533
ISBN13: 9783631852538
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Aug 24 2021
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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