Representation of male and female characters Assignment question: Discuss the representation of male and female characters in crime fiction since 1920. Two texts to discuss / compare: Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express (1934) Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (2004) Secondary criticism / work: Around 3/4 secondary works for each text
Using this distinction between ‘the story of the crime and the story of the investigation’ analyse the narrative strategies which are at work in any two of the books studied.
Crime Fiction since 1920 Assignment Question: In classic crime fiction, argues Tzvetan Todorov, there are ‘not one but two stories: the story of the crime and the story of the investigation’. Read Todorov’s chapter on ‘The Typology of Detective Fiction’ and using this distinction between ‘the story of the crime and the story of the […]