Courses
ENGL4077 Detective Fiction (3 units)
- Prerequisite:
- ENGL2007 Literary and Comparative Studies
- Medium of Instruction:
- English
This course will analyse the development of detective fiction and explore the sub-genres of detective fiction, such as the hardboiled mode, the police procedural, the historical crime fiction, and the metaphysical detective stories. Students will learn to critique detective stories through the lens of structuralist, feminist, narrative, Marxist, postcolonial, and deconstructionist theories.