by Nadya Aisenberg
University of Wisconsin Press, 1980
Paper: 978-0-87972-142-8 | Cloth: 978-0-87972-141-1
Library of Congress Classification PR830.C74A4
Dewey Decimal Classification 823.087209

ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK

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.