LITR 324 - Crime and Detective Fiction

3 Credit(s)

Interrogates crime and detective fiction in terms of type, “hard-boiled detective” fiction, “white-glove drawing room” fiction, film noir; and in terms of time period, nineteenth-century antecedents, early-twentieth-century proliferations, later 20thcentury reworkings. This course may also examine specific authors in depth, including Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Sayers, Dashiell Hammett, Georges Simenon, James Ellroy, and others.