ENGL 3747

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ENGL 3747
The Trouble with Crime Fiction

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

Where would crime fiction be without its constitutive trouble—the corpse on the floor, the predatory femme fatale, the city steeped in corruption that only an honest sleuth can purge? And where would literary and filmic culture be without crime fiction to make trouble with—to parody, reinvent, complicate, and rejoice in? This course will review classic mystery story design in such writers as Poe, Doyle, Christie, and Hammett, and will read later fictions by such writers as Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Pynchon, Patricia Highsmith, Michael Chabon, Sara Paretsky, China Miéville, Italo Calvino, and Mukoma Wa Ngugi, viewing films by John Huston, Roman Polanski, and Paul Thomas Anderson—and promising never to let the trouble go away.

When Offered Fall.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16457 ENGL 3747   LEC 001

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