A Common Spring: Crime Novel and Classic

by Nadya Aisenberg

Book Overview

Nadya Aisenberg discusses the potentialities of the crime novel, its implications, principles, and scope, and its analogy ot myth and the fairy tale. She proposes that the detective story and the thriller have made an unacknowledged contribution to "serious" literature. Her discussion of Dickens, Conrad, and Green indicate that each borrowed many important ingredients from the formulaic novel.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879721421
• ISBN13: 9780879721428
• Release Date: June 1980
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"