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Key Terms Flashcards

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3 Elements of Mystery

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  • detective
  • unsolved mystery
  • investigation
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The 4th Element of Mystery

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-the puzzle element

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The Bloody Code

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death penalty for minor crimes

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Newgate Calendar

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published crimes

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Newgate Novel

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romanticized crime (made by men)

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Sensation Novel

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show the dark underside of crime (made by women)

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C. Auguste Dupin

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detective created by Edgar Allan Poe

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Queens of Crime

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Golden Age Lady Writers: Agathe Christie, Margery, Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers

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EC Bentley

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Trent’s Last Case

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Rex Stout

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Nero Wolfe

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characteristics of the Golden Age

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  • in the countryside
  • always murder
  • no romance
  • range of suspects
  • “fair play”
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characteristics of Hardboiled Detective Fiction

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  • cynical private eye

- questionable morals

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characteristics of the Police Procedural

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  • idea of team and belonging

- “ordinary hero”

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Ratiocinative Story

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a story about the process of logical reasoning

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Locked Room Mystery

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subgenre where murder is under “impossible” circumstances

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Deduction

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If the premises are true, then the conclusion must be true

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Induction

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specific conclusion = broad generalizations

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Abduction

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major premise is certain, minor premise is probable

19
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Orientalism

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Edward Said - “othering” and colonialization

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