6/29/2023 0 Comments Detective dupinAuguste Dupin with the intent to show, that every mystery, every puzzle, however complicated and intriguing, may be solved by the application of logical reasoning. Yet, in literary circles „ he general critical consensus is that the detective story begins with Edgar Allan Poe, the ‘father’ of the detective genre” (Scaggs 7).Įdgar Allan Poe, the famous poet and author of gothic novels, had published three short stories featuring C. Auguste Dupin on the other hand is – at least today – relatively unknown, familiar probably only to the ardent crime fiction enthusiast. It is safe to say their names have become household words for detective fiction. Although the first Sherlock Holmes case was published 120 years ago and Agatha Christie’s Poirot had his first appearance in 1914, their popularity remains unbroken until today.Īgatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap is “celebrating the 64th year of a record breaking run during which over 26,000 performances have been given” and until today holds the “world record for the longest continuous run at one theatre” ("The Mousetrap") And the latest Sherlock Holmes series Sherlock and Elementary have been renewed for their fifth and sixth season respectively. Their cases have been published all over the world, were an immediate success and have since been adapted countless times for theater, radio, cinema and TV. 61–6.When we think of crime fiction two names immediately come to mind: Sherlock Holmes and, although maybe to a slightly lesser extent, Hercule Poirot. Wall as A Theory of Literary Production (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978) pp. Pierre Macherey, Pour une théorie de la production littéraire (1966), tr. Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), in Pelican Freud Library, xi: On Metapsychology: The Theory of Psychoanalysis (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984) pp. Henri Justin, ‘The Fold is the Thing: Poe Criticism in France in the Last Five Years’, Poe Studies 16, no. ![]() 30–48.Īrthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Greek Interpreter’ (Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, 1894), in The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981) p. Raymond Williams, Culture and Society 1780–1950 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958) pp. George Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness (1923), tr. Baskin as Course in General Linguistics (London: Fontana, 1974) pp. See Ferdinand de Saussure, Cours de linguistique générale (1916), tr. Forman (ed.), The Letters of John Keats (London: Oxford University Press, 1952) pp. Shelley, ‘A Defence of Poetry’ (1821), in Selected Poetry, Prose and Letters (London: Nonesuch Press, 1951) pp. See Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (London: Fontana, 1976) p. Veler (ed.), Papers on Poe (Springfield, Ohio: Chantry Music Press, 1972) pp. Stauffer, ‘Poe as Phrenologist: The Example of Monsieur Dupin’, in R. Lemay, ‘The Psychology of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”’, American Literature 54 (May 1982) 165–88, esp. Mireille Vincent, ‘Le Grand singe fauve’, Delta (Montpellier), 1 (1975) 67–82 (quoting from p. Bellei, “’The Purloined Letter”: A Theory of Perception’, Poe Studies, 9, no. Stephen Knight, Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction (London: Macmillan, 1980) p. Sigmund Freud, ‘The “Uncanny”’ (1919), in Pelican Freud Library, xiv: Art and Literature (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985) pp. Sigmund Freud, ‘On the Sexual Theories of Children’ (1908), in Pelican Freud Library, vii: On Sexuality (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977) pp. Rodker as The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation (London: Hogarth Press, 1949Ĭf. Marie Bonaparte, Edgar Poe: étude psychanalytique (1933), tr. Davidson, in Poe: A Critical Study (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957) pp. Richard Wilbur, ‘The Poe Mystery Case’, New York Review of Books 13 July 1967, pp. Terry Eagleton, ‘Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism’, New Left Review 152 (July-Aug 1985) 60–73 (quoting from p. ![]() Hoffman, ‘Mademoiselle de Scudéry’ (1819) also William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794)Į. Jerry Palmer, Thrillers: Genesis and Structure of a Popular Genre (London: Edward Arnold, 1978) p. Julian Symons, Mortal Consequences: A History from the Detective Story to the Crime Novel (New York: Schocken Books, 1973) p. Howard Haycraft, Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story (New York: Appleton-Century, 1941) p. Eliot, ‘From Poe to Valéry’, Hudson Review Autumn 1949 Walter Benjamin, ‘The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire’ (1938), in Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism tr. Carlson (ed.), The Recognition of Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Criticism since 1829 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1966) pp.
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