Susan Rowland -golden age Flashcards
What 3 labels has crime fiction from1918-1945?
Classical, golden age, clue-puzzle
What does clue-puzzle mean?
as providing a high degree of reader involvement, the reader is engrossed without being fundementally challenged.
What does golden age stand for?
a peculirly blessed eera of crime writing. 1918-1945.
What does “classical” mean?
that these crime novels provide some sort of enduring model for later works.
What was Agatha christie’s most significant influence
Anna Katherine Green
What was one of the first clue-puzzles by a woman
The leaveeenworth case by Green (1878)
what is some genre tropes of the golden age concerning detective and sidekick
the distinctive outsider detective and less astute sidekick who mediates with the readeer. .
The term “classical” also looks back to… what?
metaphysical traces eembedded in the detective. Like Chestertons “Father Brown stories.
Who does the golden age crime fiction rely upon? and why?
They rely upon the detective who dominates the plot, organises the reader’s perceptions or let the sidekick do it and solves the mystery..
Who does the writer always glance back to?
The literary ancestors, Poe and conan doyle.
What is the first and most significant characteristic of the golden age?
Its self-refereential or metafictional quality.
What does Lee Horsley say that golden -age reading is?
Re-reading.
What does self-referential mean?
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
What does metafictional mean?
relating to metafiction (= writing about imaginary characters and events in which the process of writing is discussed or described):
What is mock-heroic masculinity?
For example; Hercule Poirot against the largely mythical figure of Holmes.
what does an-other mean?
his uncanny double in the murderer.
What are the three characteristics of self-referentiality?
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.
what is meant with the idea of playing fair?
the narrator has to be trusthworthy etc.
What does Holmes resemble in terms of heroes?
an ancient male hero of epics who embarked on a quest, met obstacles and triumphed.
what is the golden age detective in terms of quest`
He takes on a much more circular or meandering quest. Uses psycology and cooks his suspects.
What is meant by cooking his suspects?
Poirot talks to them until they reveal themselvs.
What is meant by the circular quest?
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. .
How does golden age feminise the form?
by using circular quests and cooking, feminine emotive methods to rank equally with hard masculine rationality.
Name some female subordinates?
Miss Marple, Miss Lemon
