TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elżbieta Perkowska-Gawlik
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2194-5918
SN  - 9783631862049
TI  - The Contemporary Academic Mystery Novel
T2  - A Study in Genre
DO  - 10.3726/b18711
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1069064
N2  - The book focuses on contemporary staff-centred mystery novels set in the academic domain, written by scholars who enrich the generic convention of the detective novel with their academic expertise. The author delineates the academic mystery genre conventions and their connection with the characteristics of both the classical detective novel and the academic (university) novel. The analysis shows that the academic mystery novel not only fills in the classical detective formula with academic discourse, university settings, and the characters and conflicts of academics from different echelons of the university hierarchy but also, and more importantly, refers to and comments upon the current situation of tertiary education.
KW  - the university novel, intertextuality, women professors, amateur sleuths, metafictional elements, classical detective
LA  - English
ER  -