Spy thrillers : from Buchan to Le Carré
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Spy thrillers : from Buchan to Le Carré
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Macmillan, 1990
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ISBN 9780333522448
Description
This volume presents thirteen essays on the spy thriller in the twentieth century and includes a critical introduction to the subject. Each essay combines in a clear and understandable way, formal, historical, and aesthetic theory with sound practical criticism. Authors covered range from past masters such as Joseph Conrad and John Buchan to present masters such as Ian Fleming, Len Deighton and John le Carr, whilst subjects range widely from discussion of the formal characteristics of the genre to the conditions governing modern state surveillance and control, of which the spy novel is not only a symptom but also a warning. The book, which combines a comprehensive range of literary approaches, is the companion volume to Nineteenth-Century Suspense: From Poe to Conan Doyle, Twentieth Century Suspense: The Genre Comes of Age, Literature and Imperialism and American Crime Fiction, all available in the Insights Series.
Table of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: The Spy Thriller: A Genre under Cover?
- C.Bloom - Cracked Bells and Really Intelligent Detonators: Dislocation in Conrad's The Secret Agent
- A.R.Lee - The Adventure of Spying: Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands
- D.Seed - The Hunter and the Hunted: The Suspense Novels of John Buchan
- D.Butts - John Buchan: The Reader's Trap
- M.Donald - The Story of an Encounter: Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male
- M.J.Hayes - Ian Fleming's Enigmas and Variations
- M.Woolf - The Great Game? The Spy Fiction Len Deighton
- D.Jones - Are You Telling Me Lies David? The Work of John le Carr
- M.J.Hayes - Reading John le Carr
- R.Bradbury - The Well Wrought Structures of John le Carr 's Early Fiction
- D.Seed - Professionalism and Popular Fiction: The Novels of Arthur Hailey and Frederick Forsyth
- D.Jones - Spy Fiction and the Vietnam War
- J.Simons - Index
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pbk ISBN 9780333522455
Description
This volume presents 13 essays on the Spy Thriller in the 20th century and includes a critical introduction to the subject. Each essay combines historical and aesthetic theory with practical criticism. Authors covered range from Joseph Conrad and John Buchan to Ian Fleming and John Le Carre.
Table of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: The Spy Thriller: A Genre under Cover?
- C.Bloom - Cracked Bells and Really Intelligent Detonators: Dislocation in Conrad's The Secret Agent
- A.R.Lee - The Adventure of Spying: Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands
- D.Seed - The Hunter and the Hunted: The Suspense Novels of John Buchan
- D.Butts - John Buchan: The Reader's Trap
- M.Donald - The Story of an Encounter: Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male
- M.J.Hayes - Ian Fleming's Enigmas and Variations
- M.Woolf - The Great Game? The Spy Fiction Len Deighton
- D.Jones - Are You Telling Me Lies David? The Work of John le Carr
- M.J.Hayes - Reading John le Carr
- R.Bradbury - The Well Wrought Structures of John le Carr 's Early Fiction
- D.Seed - Professionalism and Popular Fiction: The Novels of Arthur Hailey and Frederick Forsyth
- D.Jones - Spy Fiction and the Vietnam War
- J.Simons - Index
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