"Inherent Vice": Thomas Pynchon beyond the Postmodern Fiction and Anti-Detective Novel

Nationality International: Detective Fiction in the Late Twentieth Century

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, crime fiction is a topranking literary genre, and has become part of mainstream culture. The crime novel’s position of pre-eminence derives from its broad fan base and its readership, with publishing houses devoting whole series and large print runs to the genre. Evidence of the prevalence of a popular obsession with crime stories is also to be foun...

Saussure and Sherlock, Derrida and the Detective: A Semiotic and Deconstructive Interpretation of the Classic Detective Fiction Genre

The Hierarchy of Detective Fiction: A Gramulator Analysis

Closely related genres have complex interrelations. An antecedent genre can constrain a subsequent genre, but changing rhetorical situations can lead to distinctions between an antecedent and its descendent. In this study, we assess two genres of detective fiction to determine their hierarchical relation to one another. We use the Gramulator, a computational tool that identifies indicative lexi...

Beyond Just the Facts: Museum Detective Guides

We present Museum Detective, a handheld guide designed for use by school children to encourage guided learning through paired discovery of one object displayed within the museum space. Initial analysis revealed that students exhibited a higher level of focused attention and short-term and longer-term retention of information about the artifacts in the gallery. However, we propose that the Museu...

The Concept of Vice and Its Relation to Sin from the Perspective of Thomas Aquinas and Mullah Mehdi Naraghi

This article tries to study comparatively the two concepts of vice and guilt and their relationship to each other in a descriptive-analytical method and based on the main works of Thomas Aquinas and Mullah Mehdi Naraghi. For Aquinas and Naraghi, vice is the opposite of virtue. From an anthropological point of view, the concept of "vice"  indicates a kind of inner and spiritual immaturity of man...