A common spring
Subtitle: crime novel and classic
By: Nadya Aisenberg.
Publisher: Bowling Green University Popular Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Bowling Green, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: English fiction -- History and criticism; Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism; Adventure stories, English -- History and criticism; Crime in literature
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 247-255.
Includes index.