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Library items with class number 813.087

Detective agency / Priscilla L. Walton

No review available on this record. Title : Detective agency : women rewriting the hard-boiled tradition Material Type: printed text Authors: Priscilla L. Walton, Author ; Manina Jones, Author Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press Publication Date: 1999 Pagination: xii, 315 p. Size: 24 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-0-520-21508-5 General note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-309) Includes index (p. 311-315) Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Detective and mystery stories Class number: 813.087 Abstract: Since the late 1970s, a sub-genre of crime fiction, written by women and featuring a professional woman investigator, has exploded on the popular fiction market. Priscilla L. Walton and Manina Jones focus on this recent proliferation of women writers of detective fiction, providing the first book-length study of the historical and societal changes that fueled this popularity, along with insightful and entertaining readings of the texts themselves. Walton and Jones place the genre within its aesthetic, social, and economic contexts, reading it as an index of cultural beliefs.Addressing the ways that Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, and others work through the conventions of the 'hard-boiled' genre made popular by writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Mickey Spillane, the authors show how the male hard-boiled tradition has been challenged and transformed. Issues of child, spousal, and sexual abuse are more likely to surface in women's detective novels, the authors show, and female sleuths face many of the same dilemmas as those who read about them - everyday problems with relationships, parenting, and money." Detective Agency" also integrates interviews with authors and publishers, reader surveys, publication data, and analysis of internet discussion groups to present a fascinating picture of the 'industry' of women's detective fiction. Authors of these works are powerful players in the publishing system as well as agents of cultural intervention, Walton and Jones claim. They conclude by examining the rise of female detectives in television and film. Contents note: Private eye and the public : professional women detectives and the business of publishing; Gumshoe metaphysics : reading popular culture and formula fiction; Does she or doesn't she? : the problematics of feminist detection; Text as evidence : linguistic subversions; Private I : viewing (through) the (female) body; Plotting against the law : outlaw agency; "She's watching the detectives" : the woman PI in film and television; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=16982

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1702-001867	813.087 Wal-Det 1999	General Collection	Library "Max van der Stoel"	English	Available

Gothic passages / Justin D Edwards

No review available on this record. Title : Gothic passages : racial ambiguity and the American gothic Material Type: printed text Authors: Justin D Edwards, Author Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press Publication Date: 2003 Pagination: xxxiii, 145 p. Size: 24 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-0-87745-824-1 General note: Includes bibliographical references (p.[123]-139) and index Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Ambiguity in literature American fiction - History and criticism - 19th century Gothic revival (Literature) - United States Horror tales, American - History and criticism Passing (Identity) in literature Race in literature Racially mixed people in literature Class number: 813.087 Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=3173

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5702-006330	813.0872903355 Edw-Got 2003	General Collection	Library "Max van der Stoel"	English	Available

Ted Hughes / Elaine Feinstein

No review available on this record. Title : Ted Hughes : the life of a poet Material Type: printed text Authors: Elaine Feinstein, Author Edition statement: 2nd edition Publisher: London : Phoenix Publication Date: 2002 Pagination: xvi, 320 p. Size: 21 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-0-7538-1357-7 General note: Includes bibliographical notes (p. 277-302) Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-308) Includes index (p. 309-320) Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Biography Ted Hughes (1930-1998) Class number: 813.087 Abstract: Ted Hughes was one of the greatest English poets of this century, yet his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy. His marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath marked his whole life and he never entirely recovered from her suicide in 1963, though he chose to remain silent on the subject for more than 30 years. Many people, including his friend Al Alvarez, have held Hughes's adultery responsible for Plath's death. Elaine Feinstein first met Hughes in 1969, and she was a good friend of his and his sister Olwen's, both of whom guarded the Plath estate. She knows many of the European and America poets who so influenced Hughes - Seamus Heaney, Thom Gunn, Miroslav Holub, and knows the world in which both he and Plath moved. Review: Elaine wrote a big piece for YOU MAGAZINE which ran on 27 Octoberand we've received lots of review coverage in the paperback review columns including the following : 'her concise and illuminating biography.... the result is never less than enthralling'THE IRISH TIMES 'Feinstein's biography shows the late Poet Laureate as a much more vulnerable and sympathetic figure than the myth all Review: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath are posthumous inspirations for rival teams, each with a strong-armed body of supporters: one team asks for sympathy for Hughes' indisputably tragic and supposedly forbearing life, blighted by a demanding first marriage and by the shadow of two suicides (first Plath's and, later, that of the object of his infidelity, Assia Weevil, who also killed their child); while the other rallies feminist argument in favor of Plath, the wronged genius. This biography is a workmanlike account; the writing is sometimes flat and formulaic ('As Ted and Sylvia drove up to Yorkshire for Christmas that December in their new Morris car, Ted could not but wonder how this visit would go') but the narrative is page-turningly pacy, and we swiftly learn the outline of the two key lives (Sylvia is often in the foreground). Feinstein avoids literary politicking, but there is a bias in Hughes' favor, which leaves us somewhat shocked when she withholds analysis of the poet's compulsive infidelities. As countervailing qualities, we are told of his generosity, his thoughtfulness, his lack of guile and his responsible stewardship of Plath's electrifying poetry - yet there is no real engagement with the more primitive, self-serving side of his nature. Moreover, there is little illumination of his own poetry (except for the autobiographical Birthday Letters, whose provenance remains frustratingly mysterious) and little on Hughes' inner life generally. To take two examples of the many unexplored corners: why was Hughes so deeply attached to his emigre brother Gerald? And what was Hughes' view of the role of the Poet Laureate and of the royal lineage he felt impelled to honor in that capacity? We never learn the answers to these and many other important questions. One day the world needs a longer, deeper account, but in the meantime this biography, which manages to make a virtue of its concision, is well worth acquiring. Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=16983

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1702-001868	813.087 Fei-Ted 2002	General Collection	Library "Max van der Stoel"	English	Available