WRIT 1P06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Alderbury, Five Little Pigs, Metafiction
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Conventions of the interwar cosy detective fiction (christie) Experimentation with structure of death-detection-explanation (interest in narrative overlapping of fabula and sjuzet; stories of ongoing deception [of detective and reader], and the twinning of murderer and detective); various techniques to defer disclosure (disguise, distraction, exhibition) An exclusive setting (eg. a country manor), and an assembly of possible suspects (thematic interest in domesticity and a return to orderliness); crimes of private interest. A clever murderer and a clever detective; a wide array of clues; some assistance from law enforcement and/or legal professionals (who turn out to be mistaken or misled) A containment of violence (with the exception of the central murder); relatively little attention to sex or even romance; thematic interest in social masks (ie. false identities or hidden madness) Many of the conventions emerge to suit the changing readership for detective fiction is this period (growing female readership), as well as the interwar period (so-called.
