Join Esmé and Kim in a discussion of WF Harvey's short story 'The Lake,' the cultural role of detective fiction, and the subversion of literary tropes, as well as an introduction to structuralist theory.

Show Notes

Here are the words and names Esmé failed to pronounce! Fabula and sjužet, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Elyan Segal. The Sherlock Holmes story referenced was called 'The Creeping Man.'

Barry, Peter, Beginning Theory: Workbook and Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995)

Evans, Christine Ann, ‘On the Valuation of Detective Fiction: A Study in the Ethics of Consolation’, Journal of Popular Culture, 28.2 (1994), 159

Haard, Eric de, Narrative and Anti-Narrative Structures in Lev Tolstoj’s Early Works (Rodopi, 1989)

Harvey, W. F., ‘The Lake’, in The Beast With Five Fingers, ed. by David Stuart Davies (Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2009)

Knox, Ronald, ‘Introduction’, in The Best Detective Stories of the Year, 1928, ed. by Ronald Knox and H. Harrington (London: Faber and Gwyer, 1929)

Miller, Tyrus, Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars (University of California Press, 1999)

Segal, Eyal, ‘Closure in Detective Fiction’, Poetics Today, 31.2 (2010), 153–215 <https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2009-018>

Todorov, Tsvetan, ‘The Typology of Detective Fiction’, in The Poetics of Prose, trans. by R. Howard (Oxford: Blackwell, 1966)