Entries from September 2008

September 10, 2008

PULP Precedents: Putting the Detective into Detective Fiction

Part psychoanalyst and part physical detection, part author of his own tale and part a product of his own time, the Detective has long been a symbol for the modern era of science, justice and the search for meaning in an increasingly anarchic world.
The Detective archetype also plays a pivotal role in some of the [...]