Abstract

MALTZ, Hernán. Crime Fiction as a Problem. CELEHIS [online]. 2018, n.35, pp.1-15. ISSN 2313-9463.

In this brief essay I conceive crime fiction as a study problem. For this purpose, I rely on two arguments. On the one hand, concerning two ideas from two critics (Moretti and Knight), I show the difficulty that any attempt to define the genre entails. On the other hand, I outline a modest work program that tries to think crime fiction through different intersections (with the sociology of culture, with the sociology of crime, with some debates surrounding world literature, with reception studies, with quantitative approaches, although, also, with close readings and qualitative interpretations associated with more traditional methods of literary studies). The global perception of these analytical links, as I consider, works as an aggregate argument that sustains the idea of crime fiction as a problem (and, especially, as a problem to which it is not possible to suggest simplifying resolutions).

Keywords : Crime Fiction; Genre; Metodology; Sociology of Culture; World Literature.

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