DUPLICITOUS DETECTION IN PETER ACKROYD’S DAN LENO AND THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM
Öz
This
paper analyses Peter Ackroyd’s novel Dan
Leno and the Limehouse Golem in view of Linda Hutcheon’s definition of
postmodernism as a “commitment to doubleness, or duplicity”. Unlike other
postmodern parodies of crime fiction that have been termed the “anti-detective
novel”, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
does not fully deconstruct the genre on which it is founded. Instead, Ackroyd’s
novel manages to function on two apparently contradictory levels: as an
enjoyable crime novel that satisfies readers’ expectations of that genre and
simultaneously as a postmodern parody of the crime novel that subverts its
conventions. Both of these functions of the novel, how they interact and how
they work to both undermine and bolster one another will be analysed.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
- Ackroyd, Peter. Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994.
- Brewster, Liz. “Murder by the book: using crime fiction as a bibliotherapeutic resource.” Medical Humanities Vol.: 43-1. (March, 2017), pp. 62-67.
- Dove, George N. The Reader and the Detective Story. Bowling Green: Bowling Green.
- Hutcheon, Linda. “Historiographic Metafiction Parody and the Intertextuality of History.” Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction. Ed. O'Donnell, P., and Robert Con Davis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1989. 3-32.
- Hutcheon, Linda. The Politics of Postmodernism. New York: Routledge, 2002. Lehman, David. The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection. Michigan: Michigan UP, 2000
- O’Gorman, Ellen. “Detective Fiction and Historical Narrative.” Greece & Rome, 2nd Ser., Vol. 46, No. 1. (Apr., 1999), pp. 19-26.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Sanat ve Edebiyat
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Reyyan Bal
0000-0002-8618-3084
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
24 Ekim 2019
Gönderilme Tarihi
17 Nisan 2019
Kabul Tarihi
22 Ağustos 2019
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2019 Sayı: 37