A common spring

By Nadya Aisenberg

Subjects: Adventure stories, Adventure stories, English, English fiction, English Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery stories, English, History and criticism, English Adventure stories, Crime in literature, Detective and mystery stories

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