Susan Rowland -golden age

Question 1

What 3 labels has crime fiction from1918-1945?

Answer 1

Classical, golden age, clue-puzzle

Question 2

What does clue-puzzle mean?

Answer 2

as providing a high degree of reader involvement, the reader is engrossed without being fundementally challenged.

Question 3

What does golden age stand for?

Answer 3

a peculirly blessed eera of crime writing. 1918-1945.

Question 4

What does “classical” mean?

Answer 4

that these crime novels provide some sort of enduring model for later works.

Question 5

What was Agatha christie’s most significant influence

Answer 5

Anna Katherine Green

Question 6

What was one of the first clue-puzzles by a woman

Answer 6

The leaveeenworth case by Green (1878)

Question 7

what is some genre tropes of the golden age concerning detective and sidekick

Answer 7

the distinctive outsider detective and less astute sidekick who mediates with the readeer. .

Question 8

The term “classical” also looks back to… what?

Answer 8

metaphysical traces eembedded in the detective. Like Chestertons “Father Brown stories.

Question 9

Who does the golden age crime fiction rely upon? and why?

Answer 9

They rely upon the detective who dominates the plot, organises the reader’s perceptions or let the sidekick do it and solves the mystery..

Question 10

Who does the writer always glance back to?

Answer 10

The literary ancestors, Poe and conan doyle.

Question 11

What is the first and most significant characteristic of the golden age?

Answer 11

Its self-refereential or metafictional quality.

Question 12

What does Lee Horsley say that golden -age reading is?

Answer 12

Re-reading.

Question 13

What does self-referential mean?

Answer 13

A self-referential book, film, play, etc. refers to itself, its writer, or other work by that writer:
ex: when Poirot says about himself in a story that he talks about himself to in the third person to keep a healthy distance to his own genious

the act or an instance of referring or alluding to oneself or itself

Question 14

What does metafictional mean?

Answer 14

relating to metafiction (= writing about imaginary characters and events in which the process of writing is discussed or described):

Question 15

What is mock-heroic masculinity?

Answer 15

For example; Hercule Poirot against the largely mythical figure of Holmes.

Question 16

what does an-other mean?

Answer 16

his uncanny double in the murderer.

Question 17

What are the three characteristics of self-referentiality?

Answer 17

1.The uncanny double in the murderer,
2.the glancing back to its preccedessors doyle and poe 3. the third is to create a relationship with the reader-where the readers ar invited to participate in the chase of the killer.

Question 18

what is meant with the idea of playing fair?

Answer 18

the narrator has to be trusthworthy etc.

Question 19

What does Holmes resemble in terms of heroes?

Answer 19

an ancient male hero of epics who embarked on a quest, met obstacles and triumphed.

Question 20

what is the golden age detective in terms of quest`

Answer 20

He takes on a much more circular or meandering quest. Uses psycology and cooks his suspects.

Question 21

What is meant by cooking his suspects?

Answer 21

Poirot talks to them until they reveal themselvs.

Question 22

What is meant by the circular quest?

Answer 22

An example stems from Freeman wills crofts in “Inspector French greatest case” where French goes on a long frutiless journey across europe, his staying at home wife helps him nab his man and end his journey. .

Question 23

How does golden age feminise the form?

Answer 23

by using circular quests and cooking, feminine emotive methods to rank equally with hard masculine rationality.

Question 24

Name some female subordinates?

Answer 24

Miss Marple, Miss Lemon

Question 25

Are young women allowed to sleuth?

Answer 25

Yes, but usually in partnerhsip. However, The women refuses to be sidelined.

Question 26

Name 3 characteristics that help to feminise the form.

Answer 26

cirularity, cooking, getting to know the characters.

Question 27

What does golden age consider to be important for the body of the detevctive=

Answer 27

instincts, intuitions, sexulaity, vulnerbility, psycological otherness all counts as important for the detectiing process.

Question 28

What is does it mean that golden age is a re-emergence of the myth for the quest of the holy grail?

Answer 28

The grail: healing knowledge of the source of social sickness. Once this knowledge is possessed, the crimnial can be removed and the wasteland renewed. (EXplain this further)

Question 29

What is the golden-age at a deep mythical level?

Answer 29

an attempt to heal the wasteland of the post-world war 1 modern world.

Question 30

What can social role-playing be seen as?

Answer 30

A manifestation of class privilege and a cover for moral guilt.

Question 31

What setting is charactgeristic for golden age`?

Answer 31

Confined spaces, like the country house,or the simplon orien express.

Question 32

What does agatha Christie insinuate in murder on the orient express?

Answer 32

That the performing selves of the different nationalities prove to be emblematic (Representing a particular person group or idea) of the rising power of america and of a dangerous tendency towards unilateral (Involving only one group or country) justice.

Question 33

What is another way of making social ideologies visible in golden age?

Answer 33

By exploring the post victorian family. Compared to Holmes, golden age detectives is family friendly.

Question 34

What does golden-age reject of victorian ideals?

Answer 34

the Victorian stuffiness and authority.

Question 35

What does Christies interwar fiction do?

Answer 35

both reveal and attempts to heal the ruptures of social organistation of the post-war.

Question 36

Are foreigners the main targets for guilt in golden age?

Answer 36

No. More usual is the detection of otherness within English society in the form of deviance and criminality.

Question 37

What did golden agee seek to redeem ?

Answer 37

the modern world from death, war and chaos. It did so, by developing a flexible self-referential form and by embodying the mythical hero in a new relation between masculine and femininine structures of consciousness.