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Summer 2013
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| ENG 121 - Detective Fiction |
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Associated Term:
Summer 2013
Learning Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to: 1. Recognize the development of the Key British works in detective fiction from the development of the soft-boiled detectives from the 1890's (and the cultural background that generated the stories and novels) to the present. 2. Demonstrate an awareness of the chronology of the classic nineteenth century detective fiction authors in England. 3. Examine Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes along with Edgar Allen Poe's Dupin to understand the beginnings of the genre. 4. Apply the multiple approaches to reading this popular literature and be able to identify the various conventions and literary devices used by major authors. 5. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of social, political, and cultural contexts shaping and being shaped by detective fiction. 6. Distinguish between connotation and denotation and demonstrate how the connotative language helps shape major points of a literary text such as soft-boiled and hard-boiled novels and stories. Examine how we witness the movement from Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes' methods to the modern forensic labs and the scientific techniques used in modern detective fiction and many T.V. shows and films. 7. Illustrate the early beginnings of hard boiled detectives and the California writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald to the modern writer, Walter Mosley's view of L.A. and Sara Paretsky and Laura Lippman's views of Baltimore and Chicago respectively. 8. Demonstrate ability to use interpretive frameworks to investigate contextual meanings of literature. Required Materials: Technical Requirements: |
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