With criminal intent: reading detective fiction

Bundy, Colin

With criminal intent: reading detective fiction

dc.contributor.author	Bundy, Colin
dc.coverage.spatial	United Kingdom, United States, South Africa	en_ZA
dc.date	2014-01-20
dc.date.accessioned	2014-09-29T10:48:49Z
dc.date.available	2014-09-29T10:48:49Z
dc.date.issued	2014-09-29
dc.description.abstract	This course will consider how detective fiction/crime novels relate to the societies and periods in which they are set. It will regard this work not as mere escapist entertainment, but as a useful lens through which to examine broader issues. The first lecture will give an account of the ‘golden age’ of British crime fiction (essentially the interwar years), note its characteristics and conventions – the amateur sleuth, the cosy settings, the limited cast of suspects – and briefly consider some key practitioners: Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh. The second lecture will consider two major American additions to the crime fiction library: the ‘hard-boiled’ or ‘private eye’ genre represented by Dashiel Hammet, Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald and the ‘police procedural’ (like Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series). The course will then consider the prominence of Oxford as a setting for British crime fiction and include discussion of the Inspector Morse novels and television series. The final lectures will look at South African crime fiction, referring to novels by James McClure and Deon Meyer, with police officers at the heart of their novels: Tromp Kramer and Sergeant Mickey Zondi in McClure’s series, and Mat Joubert, Bennie Griesel, Mbali Kaleni and their colleagues in Meyer’s books.	en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitation	2014. <i>With criminal intent: reading detective fiction.</i> http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7729	en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitation	. 2014. <i>With criminal intent: reading detective fiction.</i> http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7729	en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation	Bundy, C. 2014-09-29. With criminal intent: reading detective fiction. Recorded lecture. UCT Summer School Lectures 2014. University of Cape Town.	en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris	TY - Other AU - Bundy, Colin AB - This course will consider how detective fiction/crime novels relate to the societies and periods in which they are set. It will regard this work not as mere escapist entertainment, but as a useful lens through which to examine broader issues. The first lecture will give an account of the ‘golden age’ of British crime fiction (essentially the interwar years), note its characteristics and conventions – the amateur sleuth, the cosy settings, the limited cast of suspects – and briefly consider some key practitioners: Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh. The second lecture will consider two major American additions to the crime fiction library: the ‘hard-boiled’ or ‘private eye’ genre represented by Dashiel Hammet, Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald and the ‘police procedural’ (like Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series). The course will then consider the prominence of Oxford as a setting for British crime fiction and include discussion of the Inspector Morse novels and television series. The final lectures will look at South African crime fiction, referring to novels by James McClure and Deon Meyer, with police officers at the heart of their novels: Tromp Kramer and Sergeant Mickey Zondi in McClure’s series, and Mat Joubert, Bennie Griesel, Mbali Kaleni and their colleagues in Meyer’s books. DA - 2014-09-29 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - detective fiction KW - private eye KW - police in fiction KW - crime and society LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - With criminal intent: reading detective fiction TI - With criminal intent: reading detective fiction UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7729 ER -	en_ZA
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7729
dc.identifier.vancouvercitation	. 2014. <i>With criminal intent: reading detective fiction.</i> http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7729	en_ZA
dc.language	eng	en_ZA
dc.publisher.institution	University of Cape Town
dc.relation.ispartofseries	UCT Summer School Lectures 2014	en_ZA
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	en_ZA
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	en_ZA
dc.subject	detective fiction	en_ZA
dc.subject	private eye	en_ZA
dc.subject	police in fiction	en_ZA
dc.subject	crime and society	en_ZA
dc.title	With criminal intent: reading detective fiction	en_ZA
dc.type	Other	en_ZA
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uct.type.publication	Teaching and Learning	en_ZA
uct.type.resource	Recorded lecture	en_ZA