A Common Spring: Crime Novel and Classic

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Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1979 - 271 pages

Nadya Aisenberg discusses the potentialities of the crime novel, its implications, principles, and scope, and its analogy of 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.

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INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER I
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MYTH FAIRYTALE AND THE CRIME NOVEL
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