Detective fiction and the critical-creative nexus

Title: Detective fiction and the critical-creative nexus
Creator: Gulddal, Jesper; Rolls, Alistair
Relation: Text: Special Issue: Crime Fiction and the Creative/Critical Nexus Vol. 31, Issue October 2016, p. 1-10
Relation: http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue37/content.htm
Publisher: Australian Association of Writing Programs
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: This article aims to put a theoretical frame around the concept of the critical-creative nexus as it manifests itself in detective fiction. It argues that critical and creative practices in the context of detective fiction, and by extension in popular literature in general, are deeply interconnected: the writing of detective fiction always involves a critical positioning in relation to established genre conventions, while, conversely, detective fiction criticism, and certainly its most important exempla, involves an element of the creative, stretching from imaginative readings to a complete critical rewriting of the individual story. The article concludes by suggesting that the concept of the critical creative nexus results in a new understanding of detective fiction as an inherently mobile genre constantly in the process of reinventing itself.
Subject: creative writing; detective fiction; mobility; literary criticism
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1324664
Identifier: uon:25087
Identifier: ISSN:1327-9556
Language: eng
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