Murder 101: Essays on the Teaching of Detective Fiction

by Edward J. Rielly (Editor)

Overview

This collection of essays examines how college professors teach the genre of detective fiction and provides insight into how the reader may apply such strategies to his or her own courses.

Multi-disciplinary in scope, the essays cover teaching in the areas of literature, law, history, sociology, anthropology, architecture, gender studies, cultural studies, and literary theory. Also included are sample syllabi, writing assignments, questions for further discussion, reading lists, and further aids for course instruction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786436576
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	01/09/2009
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Edward J. Rielly is a professor emeritus of Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, where he created and directed the Writing and Publishing program. He is the author or editor of 30 books and lives in Westbrook, Maine.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     
Introduction
Edward J. Rielly     
Exploring the Origins of American Detective Fiction: Teaching Poe and Dime Novels
Pamela Bedore     
Detective Fiction, Cultural Categories, and the Ideology of Criticism
Stephen Brauer     
Teaching International Detective Fiction
Patricia P. Buckler     
Undergraduates and Hispanic Sleuths: The Importance of University Cor(ps)e Requirements in a Liberal Learning Curriculum
Benjamin Fraser     
Contemporary Detective Fiction Across the English Curriculum
Genie Giaimo     
Holmes Is Where the Art Is: Architectural Design Projects
Derham Groves     
Southern Crime: The Clash of Hero and Villain in a Writing Course
Mary Hadley     
Adding Some Mystery to Cultural Studies
Steve Hecox     
Teaching Detective Fiction from a Feminist Perspective
Ellen F. Higgins     
Fixing and Un-Fixing Words: Nastiness, Fidelity, and Betrayal in Chandler’s and Hawks’s The Big Sleep
Alexander N. Howe     
Historical Mysteries in the Literature Classroom
Rosemary Johnsen     
African Crime/Mystery Stories: Triggering Provocative Classroom Topics
Virginia Macdonald     
Murder in the Classroom: Teaching Detective Fiction at the Graduate Level
Lois A. Marchino and Deane Mansfield-Kelley     
Introducing Literature through Detective Fiction: An Approach to Teaching Online
Meg Matheny     
Mysteries of O’ahu: Local Detective Fiction in the Composition Classroom
Stanley D. Orr     
1930s-1940s Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and 1940s–1950s
Detective Noir
Christine Photinos     
Anthropologists as Detectives and Detectives as Anthropologists
James C. Pierson     
“Just the Facts”: Detective Fiction in the Law School Curriculum
Robert C. Power     
Margaret Coel’s The Story Teller in a Literary Criticism Course
Edward J. Rielly     
Women Detectives in Contemporary American Popular Culture
Deborah Shaller     
Reading Students Reading Detectives
Rosemary Weatherston     
Detective Fiction in the First-Year Seminar
Robert P. Winston and Judy Gill     
The Mystery of Composition: A Detective-Themed Composition Course
Chris York     

Notes on Contributors     
Index