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Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary

By: Marta Dvorak,Manina Jones

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Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary

By: Marta Dvorak,Manina Jones

Claiming the "ordinary" and "extra-ordinary" as critical categories, contributors to this volume explore the philosophical and literary import of Carol Shields's writing, its complex play with genre and narrative technique, its re-valuing of domesticity and gendered perspective, and the social critique implicit in its gentle satirical impulses.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773560300

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9780773560307

Detective Agency

Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition

By: Priscilla L. Walton,Manina Jones

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Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition

By: Priscilla L. Walton,Manina Jones

Since the late 1970s, a subgenre 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.

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Univ of California Press

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0520921461

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Detective Agency

Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition

By: Priscilla L. Walton,Manina Jones

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Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition

By: Priscilla L. Walton,Manina Jones

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Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary

By: Marta Dvorak,Manina Jones

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