This seminar will provide an overview of the popular genre ‘Crime and Detective Fiction’ in its historical and regional variety. Addressing questions concerning genre conventions and innovation, we will pay attention to the character conception of detectives, to plot design, narration and focalisation. Starting with 19th-century fiction, we will read prototypical detective stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle as well as a contemporary Bengali rewriting featuring Byomkesh Bakshi as a South-Asian appropriation of Sherlock Holmes. Moving on to the 20th and 21st centuries, we will study British, Australian and South African novels that follow the modes of the ‘whodunit’ and the 'hardboiled'.
Frequency | Weekday | Time | Format / Place | Period | |
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weekly | Di | 8-10 | U2-139 | 09.10.2023-02.02.2024
not on: 12/26/23 / 1/2/24 |
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23-ANG-M-AngGM2 Grundmodul 2: Contact Zones and Intercultural Studies | GM 2.2 Cultural and Literary Contact in Great Britain and the Post-Colonial World | Study requirement
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23-ANG-M-GM3 Grundmodul 3: Contact Zones and Intercultural Studies | Cultural/Literary Contact Britain | Study requirement
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23-LIT-M-LitAM3 Aufbau-Modul II: Fachphilologische Vertiefung Anglistik | Lehrveranstaltung 1 | Study requirement
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Lehrveranstaltung 3 | Graded examination
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23-LIT-M-LitINT Intensivierung | Aufbaumodul Lehrveranstaltung 1 | Study requirement
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Aufbaumodul Lehrveranstaltung 2 | Study requirement
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Aufbaumodul Lehrveranstaltung 3 | Study requirement
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23-MeWi-HM1 Medien, Sprache und Kultur | Lehrveranstaltung I | Graded examination
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Lehrveranstaltung II | Study requirement
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Lehrveranstaltung III | Study requirement
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Lehrveranstaltung IV | Study requirement
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30-MGS-3 Hauptmodul 2: Sozialisation und Bildung | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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38-M2-KV Theoretische Grundlagen | Kulturgeschichte | Study requirement
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