Holmes under the Magnifying Glass: Questioning the Conventions of Detective Fiction

Authors

  • Elizabeth McNeill

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2015.931

Abstract

The bilingual anthology Detective Fiction and Popular Visual Culture provides an interdisciplinary study of contemporary developments in detective fiction. Throughout the collection, the testing of generic conventions reveals a readjustment of the detective-fiction tradition to fit modern reader-viewers, ultimately raising the question: Is it detective fiction if the detective is spotlighted over the murder mystery case, or even the detective-fiction tradition itself?

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Published

2015-10-31

Issue

No. 44 (2015): KULT_online 44 (2015)

Section

KULT_reviews

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How to Cite

“Holmes under the Magnifying Glass: Questioning the Conventions of Detective Fiction”. 2015. KULT_online, no. 44 (October). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2015.931.