Tag: campus-fiction
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Eric Wright and Canadian Academic Crime Fiction
I’ve been researching mystery stories set on Canadian campuses, and that’s directed me to writers I’ve intended to read for years, including the prolific Eric Wright (1929-2015). Wright authored four crime fiction series, and his achievement is especially impressive given his relatively late start as a novelist. The first decades of his career were taken…
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A.S. Byatt’s Possession and Academic Mysteries: Why Do English Departments Dominate?
Have you read A.S. Byatt’s Possession? It’s a brilliant book, although I find the most highly praised portions–the author’s careful recreation of Victorian poetry in two voices–far less engaging than the academic caper and intrigue. It’s extraordinary that Byatt can create poetry, in quasi-Browning/Tennyson and Rossetti/Barrett Browning styles, so effectively. But there is already more…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 