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Introduzione
No full textCrime precedes detection both in the process of any routine story and in the originary development of this genre. Both dizzying excitement and alarming threat are structural to the early narratives that shaped the process of crime fiction, and those dialectically-linked forces are most accurately described, and also historically located, in the social and personal forces that generated the power of the concept, and the integrated emotion, of the sublime as it developed at the interface of Enlightenment and Romanticism. Maurizio Ascari and Stephen Knight's introduction explores this early stage in the development of crime fiction, setting the ground for the multifaceted approach to the phenomenon of crime fiction this miscellaneous volume offers
Professor Stephen Knight and others at Theatre
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From the Sublime to City Crime
No full textThe authors and cultural formations under discussion in From the Sublime to City Crime are much more than the pre-modernism of detective-focused crime fiction. They testify to the strength and power of the sublime forces of both awe and fear that were potent in the early nineteenth century and have remained the dialectical dynamic of the genre, stimulating and making exciting the containment
provided by the rationalistic elements of cerebral, quasi-scientific and triumphantly individualistic detection. As these early criminographers grappled with the interface of rational discourse and subliminal passions, from the hopeful
errancy of Caleb Williams to the media’s attempt to confront and contain the murderous Maria Manning, as narratives from disciplinary medicine and law confronted human aberrance, as Balzac predicted the roman noir and 19th century Scandinavians pointed to Stieg Larsson, they all realised the deep and Dangerous world of modern crime, physical and emotional, and brought the genre
of crime fiction into existence in a blasted Eden – which it has never ceased to celebrate
Introduction
No full textThe fiction of detective fiction is an alibi to conceal the actual impact of the other narrative, the sublime, the underground river of crime fiction. This force pre-existed detective fiction, is in many ways foreclosed, but enduringly remains the dynamo of threat and nxiety that both drives the narrative of crime and insistently demands its euphemisations. The articles assembled in this issue of "La Questione Romantica" ("Crime and the Sublime") explore some facets of the complex relations between crime and the sublime, investigating texts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Their aim is to reconnect the development of detective fiction to the territory of gothic fiction, showing that this primitive need to represent the fearful and the uncanny actually survived the birth of the detective. The ensuing genre owed its sucess precisely to the tension between the rendering of oneiric 'night fears' and the need for closure that marks the triumph not only of justice over crime but also of rationality over the unconscious
Stephen Knight, <i>The Politics of Myth</i>
Full text linkThe Politics of Myth rappresenta, per alcuni versi, il punto di arrivo della carriera di Stephen Knight, professore onorario presso l’Università di Melbourne, Australia. Questo libro raccoglie il lavoro di una vita intorno al ‘mito’, rivisitato non in chiave archeologica, ma in quanto forza attiva nel nostro presente che ci permette di ripensare «the structures, values and human roles within the societies that live by and realise themselves through that culture» (1)
Amateur astronomer Stephen Knight, 35, of E. Waterford, was the first earthling
No full textAmateur astronomer Stephen Knight, 35, of E. Waterford, was the first earthling to see a supernova which exploded fifty-seven million years ago in a faraway galaxy. The supernova has since been named SN Knight 1991T
Amateur astronomer Stephen Knight, 35, of E. Waterford, was the first earthling
No full textAmateur astronomer Stephen Knight, 35, of E. Waterford, was the first earthling to see a supernova which exploded fifty-seven million years ago in a faraway galaxy. The supernova has since been named SN Knight 1991T
Recensione di Stephen Knight, "Merlin: Knowledge and Power through the Ages", Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2009
No full textRecensione di Stephen Knight, Merlin: Knowledge and Power through the Ages, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 200
In pursuit of the sublime: De Quincey and the Romantics’ metaphysical conception of crime
No full textThomas De Quincey is commonly considered a key figure in the history of crime fiction, notably thanks to his influential essay ‘On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts’ (1827), where he explores the public impact and the aesthetic potential of the 1811 Ratfcliffe Highway murders. The present essay discusses the Romantics’ conception of crime and De Quincey’s interest for the ‘performative’ and ‘sublime’ dimensions of murder in order to focus on ‘The Avenger’ (1838), a text where the category of the sublime conflates with the theme of revenge and the sophisticated rhetorical strategies of Romantic irony
Stephen Knight, English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Voice of the People, New York and London: Routledge, 2024, 175 pp., ISBN 978102739052
Full text linkReview of Stephen Knight, English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Voice of the People, New York and London: Routledge, 2024, 175 pp., ISBN 978102739052
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