Syllabus:

Crime Fiction: Tradition and Change, 7.5 credits

The course is discontinued from 2025-05-08

Swedish name: Detektivromanen. Tradition och förnyelse

This syllabus is valid: 2013-03-04 and until further notice

Course code: 1EN060

Credit points: 7.5

Education level: Second cycle

Main Field of Study and progress level: English: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements

Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail

Responsible department: Department of Language Studies

Required Knowledge

90 higher education credits in English, or 90 higher education credits in Literature, or equivalent qualifications. In order to be admitted to the course, applicants must have completed all 90 credits. In addition, their previous studies must include an introductory course and a continuation course in English literature at university level, or equivalent qualifications.

Literature

Valid from: 2013 week 10

Hammett Dashiell
The Maltese falcon
1. Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed. : New York : Vintage Books : 1992 : 217 s. :
ISBN: 0-679-72264-5 ; hft.
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Hillerman Tony
The blessing way

Mandatory

King Laurie R
The art of detection
Bantam Books : 2006 :
ISBN: 0-553-80453-7
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Lehane Dennis
Mystic river
New York, N.Y. : HarperTorch : 2001 : 478 p. :
ISBN: 0-380-73185-1 (pbk.)
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McDermid Val
The mermaids singing
[New ed.] : London : Harper : 2010. : 443 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-00-734467-3
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The murders in the Rue Morgue : the Dupin tales
Poe Edgar Allan, Poe Edgar Allan, Poe Edgar Allan, Pearl Matthew
London : Vintage : 2009. : 119 p. :
ISBN: 978-0-09-952958-3 (pbk.)
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Sayers Dorothy L.
Busman's honeymoon
New York : HarperPaperback : 1995 : 403 s. :
ISBN: 0-06-104351-6
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Scaggs John
Crime fiction
Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Routledge : 2005 : 170 s. :
ISBN: 0-415-31824-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Klein Kathleen Gregory.
Diversity and detective fiction
Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press : 1999. : 262 p. :
ISBN: 0-87972-795-0
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Reddy Maureen T.
Traces, codes, and clues : reading race in crime fiction
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press : cop. 2003 : 213 s. :
ISBN: 0-8135-3201-9 (inb.)
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Priestman Martin
The Cambridge companion to crime fiction
London : Cambridge University Press : 2003 : xvii, 287 s. :
ISBN: 0-521-00871-9 (hft.)
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Detective agency : women rewriting the hard-boiled tradition
Walton Priscilla L., Jones Manina
Berkeley : University of California Press : 1999 : xii, 315 s. :
ISBN: 0-520-21507-9 (inb.)
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