Tag: book-review
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Jane Eyre and Unreliable Female Narrators: The Bête Noire of Contemporary Thrillers
“Reader, I married him,” Jane Eyre tells us. “A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.” Guests are out of the question, of course. When one’s first attempt at nuptials has been interrupted by a series of events including, but not limited to, the groom’s mad first wife…
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Ghost Writers: Generative AI, Intellectual Property, and the Trope of the Hidden Author
Grading concerns are converging with literary critical ones this weekend as I type less-than-patient messages to class members who wrote an analysis of an autobiographical sketch in which they misrepresent the topic, themes, events, and personages. Thanks, ChatGPT, for that hallucination. Very much appreciated. But intriguingly (one finds the silver lining), mystery fiction is also…
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Food, Feminism, and Mystery Fiction
Beth Kalikoff, writing in 2006, called attention to the plethora of mystery novels, most of which were enduring series, that incorporated food directly into the murder plot and not always because the victim was poisoned. As she described, while noting that only limited critical attention had been paid to date to the phenomenon, mystery novels…
