Title: A common spring
First published: 1979
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.
Subjects: History and criticism, English Detective and mystery stories, English Adventure stories, Adventure stories, English, English fiction, Crime in literature, Detective and mystery stories, English, Detective and mystery stories, Adventure stories
LC classification: PR830.C74 A4