DEPARTMENT OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES AND RESEARCH IN ENGLISH

CERTIFICATE COURSE – AN OVERVIEW TO CRIME FICTION

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• Introduce the students to Crime Fiction as a genre
• To be able to critically analyse the various sub-genres of Crime Fiction
• To evaluate and construct interpretations by employing critical tools

UNIT – I: INTRODUCTION                                                                      (5 Hours)

Classical Crime Fiction – Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle

The Golden Age – The Locked Room and Cozy Who-dun-it

The Hard – Boiled Noir

Police Procedurals and Legal Thrillers

Psychological and Historical Crime Novels

Anti Detective Novels

UNIT – II: THE PIONEERS                                                                      (10 Hours)

Edgar Allan Poe: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”

Arthur Conan Doyle: “A Scandal in Bohemia”, “The Speckled Band”

UNIT – III: NOVELS                                                                                  (15 Hours)

Agatha Christie: The Body in the Library

Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon

John Grisham: The Last Juror

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