Knowledge Commons | Detective Fiction | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/detective-fiction/ Activity feed for the group, Detective Fiction. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:40:55 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 b8291f674e221d833d93a4d5751819bc William Nichols deposited Viajes al futuro y sociedad del simulacro: Modernidad, Disneyficación y ruinas de la resistencia en Quinteto de Buenos Aires de Manuel Vázquez Montalban in the group Detective Fiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1692260/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 03:48:44 -0400 A lo largo de la obra de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, tanto en las obras dentro de la serie Carvalho como fuera y en la producción de libros no-ficción, el viaje sirve para como ímpetu narrativo además de eje temático para indagar las contradicciones de la globalización y explorar la memoria como estrategia de resistencia. Por un lado, el viaje o…[Read more]

]]> 0 bd781a23bab842c68eebedf4c3fabd77 Walter Raubicheck started the topic CFP: American Crime Fiction Journal in the discussion Detective Fiction https://hcommons.org/groups/detective-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-american-crime-fiction-journal/ Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:28:44 -0400 We are re-opening the Call for Papers for a new journal devoted to American Crime Fiction.

]]> a1df6dc36b25466f8951634f9ce7cd9a elizfoxwell started the topic New RSS feed, Clues tables of contents in the discussion Detective Fiction https://hcommons.org/groups/detective-fiction/forum/topic/new-rss-feed-clues-tables-of-contents/ Sun, 26 Aug 2018 11:31:04 -0400 Keep up to date on Clues: A Journal of Detection via its new RSS feed for tables of contents (including new issue 36.2) https://bit.ly/CluRSS

]]> 9e53f48c8628d2e7d04ec33b34618548 Mollie Freier deposited Book proposal: Book ‘Em: Libraries, Librarians, and Information in Mystery Fiction, 1970-2018 in the group Detective Fiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615161/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:25:26 -0400 Proposal for Book ‘Em: Libraries, Librarians, and Information in Mystery Fiction, 1970-2018

]]> 0 bcb1fc8b4ea4a1df004200e0afc8a873 elizfoxwell started the topic CFP: Interwar Mysteries--The Golden Age & Beyond (Clues: A Journal of Detection) in the discussion Detective Fiction https://hcommons.org/groups/detective-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-interwar-mysteries-the-golden-age-beyond-clues-a-journal-of-detection/ Sun, 08 Jul 2018 13:05:25 -0400 CFP: Interwar Mysteries--The Golden Age and Beyond
(Theme issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection)
Guest editor: Victoria Stewart (University of Leicester)
Submission deadline: October 12, 2018

“These things never happened before the War.”
—Mr. Wetheridge, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928), by Dorothy L. Sayers

Although the perio…[Read more]

]]> f7c8dc1a472e29b5f108fac3892fe3c6 Jennifer Schnabel started the topic CFP: Mystery & Detective Fiction Area of PCA in the discussion Detective Fiction https://hcommons.org/groups/detective-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-mystery-detective-fiction-area-of-pca/ Fri, 06 Jul 2018 19:17:35 -0400 <p style="text-align: left;">Please consider submitting an abstract by Oct. 1 for the 2019 Popular Culture Association conference in Washington, D.C., April 17-20! Details here: https://pcaaca.org/area/mystery-detective-fiction</p>

]]> 980ccc4c89ad0730a085a8632b490576 Mollie Freier started the topic Cozy mysteries in the discussion Detective Fiction https://hcommons.org/groups/detective-fiction/forum/topic/cozy-mysteries/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 13:39:12 -0400 What work are people doing on cozy mysteries?

]]> ba4d54d9dd614824a1bf2de766081bfe Nicola Griffith deposited Norming the Other: Narrative Empathy Via Focalised Heterotopia in the group Detective Fiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575339/ Fri, 07 Jul 2017 01:00:01 -0400 This critical commentary argues that the novels submitted (emphasis on Ammonite, The Blue Place, and Hild, with three others, Slow River, Stay, and Always briefly referenced), form a coherent body of work which centres and norms the experience of the Other, particularly queer women. Close reading of the novels demonstrates how specific word-choice…[Read more]

]]> 0 6b218518c54e21cd1b84679e4df4feee Camilla Hoel deposited The Final Problem: Constructing Coherence in the Holmesian Canon in the group Detective Fiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575157/ Tue, 04 Jul 2017 01:00:06 -0400 The death and resurrection of Sherlock Holmes, a contrarian reading in which Holmes helps the murderer, and the century-long tradition of the Holmesian Great Game with its pseudo-scholarly readings in light of an ironic conviction that Holmes is real and Arthur Conan Doyle merely John Watson’s literary agent. This paper relies on these events in t…[Read more]

]]> 0 483f3cd48e9f4e04d1cbc07b614d2bb2 Camilla Hoel posted an update in the group Detective Fiction: Surely detective fiction should have its own little corner […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575132/ Mon, 03 Jul 2017 17:07:54 -0400 Surely detective fiction should have its own little corner of Humanities Commons! Feel free to share recommendations and have discussions, both scholarly and otherwise. Mainly I am interested to know what people are working on/reading.

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