Detective Fiction on the Case of Community uses one of the most popular forms of modern literature to examine one of modernity's most trenchant problems. The project rests on the argument that detective fiction emerges specifically from an awareness of the stress that modernization puts on the possibilities of communal life, as industrialization and urbanism accelerate the alienation and atomization we recognize as modern conditions. Here the detective appears as an image of thinking still able to perceive the threads that link such alienated people together, and therefore able to imagine solutions along the lines of these obscured connections. Reading the genre's journey, from its origins in Poe to its most unorthodox form in Pynchon, allows fresh perspectives on the possibilities and limits of modern community, from its endurance as part of modernization to its meaning today as a sticking point in theoretical debate and political activism.
| ISBN: | 9781032618500 |
| Publication date: | 21st May 2026 |
| Author: | Devin G Fromm |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 166 pages |
| Series: | Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Anthropology Philosophy |
Detective Fiction on the Case of Community uses one of the most popular forms of modern literature to examine one of modernity's most trenchant problems. The project rests on the argument that detective fiction emerges specifically from an awareness of the stress that modernization puts on the possibilities of communal life, as industrialization and urbanism accelerate the alienation and atomization we recognize as modern conditions. Here the detective appears as an image of thinking still able to perceive the threads that link such alienated people together, and therefore able to imagine solutions along the lines of these obscured connections. Reading the genre's journey, from its origins in Poe to its most unorthodox form in Pynchon, allows fresh perspectives on the possibilities and limits of modern community, from its endurance as part of modernization to its meaning today as a sticking point in theoretical debate and political activism.
Detective Fiction on the Case of Community features in the following genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Anthropology, Philosophy
Detective Fiction on the Case of Community is available in Paperback, Hardback
Detective Fiction on the Case of Community was written by Devin G Fromm and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Detective Fiction on the Case of Community has 166 pages
Yes it is part of Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory series
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