Comic Crime

Bargainnier (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

202 Seiten

1987
The Popular Press (Verlag)
978-0-87972-384-2 (ISBN)

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The humor of Sherlock Holmes, Donald Westlake, Agatha Christie, Michael Innes, and Edmund Crispin are just a few of those discussed. A major point highlighted by this book is simply that wit, slapstick. laughter, and an anything-can-happen motif appear in a significant amount of fiction about crime.

Earl F. Bargainnier ( 1987) was Fuller E. Callaway Professor of English Language and Literature at Wesleyan College. A former president of the Popular Culture Association, he was the author of more than sixty articles and The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie. He also edited Twelve Englishmen of Mystery and co-edited Cops and Constables."

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.5.1991
Verlagsort	Madison
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	333 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-87972-384-X / 087972384X
ISBN-13	978-0-87972-384-2 / 9780879723842
Zustand	Neuware