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The Introduction to Teaching Crime Fiction presents and examines central questions and themes raised in the critical and educational study of this genre, exploring the ways in which crime fiction has been theorised in recent decades and the questions this raises for teaching and learning. The Introduction traces the contents of the individual essays in the volume, explaining the relevance and significance of the individual chapters’ topics and approaches to the book and summarising the arguments pursued. The Introduction argues that these thematic and pedagogical questions are central to crime fiction teaching and learning in the undergraduate classroom as well as in postgraduate study.
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See also my discussion of this piece in “In Praise of Crime Fiction”, Dr Beyer’s Page, 25 January 2016. http://beyerpage.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/in-praise-of-crime-fiction.html Accessed 27 December 2017.
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Jill Girgulis. “Popularity of detective fiction course no mystery”. The Gauntlet. 19 January 2016. http://www.thegauntlet.ca/popularity-of-detective-fiction-course-no-mystery/ Accessed 27 December 2017.
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Richard Bradford, “The criminal neglect of detective fiction”. Times Higher Education, 4 June 2015. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/content/the-criminal-neglect-of-detective-fiction Accessed 3 January 2018.
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Katy Shaw, “Introduction”. In Teaching 21st Century Genres, edited by Katy Shaw. Houndmills: Palgrave, xiv.
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John Scaggs, Crime Fiction. Abingdon, Routledge, 2005. 1.
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Charles J. Rzepka, ‘What is Crime Fiction?” In A Companion to Crime Fiction, edited by Charles J. Rzepka and Lee Horsley. Chichester, Blackwell, 2010.1–10. 1.
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Laura Marcus, “Detection and Literary Fiction”. In The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction, edited by Martin Priestman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 245.
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Stephen Knight, “Foreword”. In The Millennial Detective: Essays on Trends in Crime Fiction, Film and Television, 1990–2010, edited by Malcah Effron. Jefferson: McFarland, 2011. 1.
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Knight (2011), 2.
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Martin Priestman, “Introduction: Crime Fiction and Detective Fiction,” In The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction, edited by Martin Priestman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 2.
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Priestman, 2.
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Scaggs, 3.
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See also Girguilis.
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Rachel Franks, “Motive for Murder: Reading Crime Fiction”. The Australian Library and Information Association Biennial Conference. Sydney: Jul. 2012. 8.
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Franks, 1.
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Stephen Knight. “Motive, Means and Opportunity: Teaching Crime Fiction”. Professor Stephen Knight. 29 August 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20170313064908/http:/www.profstephenknight.com/search/label/teaching Accessed 27 December 2017.
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Knight.
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Gerald Graff. Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind. Yale University Press, 2003. 5.
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Michael Prosser. “The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: What is it? A Personal View”. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2008) 2. See also Patricia Cartney. “Researching Pedagogy in a Contested Space”. British Journal of Social Work, 45 (2015). 1137–1154.
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Fletcher, 1.
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Prosser, 1. Cites Boyer, E. L. (1990) Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate. Princeton, NJ: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of University Teaching.
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See also Northedge, Andrew. “Rethinking Teaching in the Context of Diversity”, Teaching in Higher Education, 8: 1, 2003. 17–32.
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Prosser, 3. See also Beyer.
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Fletcher, 3.
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See also Shaw’s listing of strategies for teaching and learning, xvi–xvii.
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Prosser, 4.
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Beyer, C. (2018). Introduction: Crime Fiction. In: Beyer, C. (eds) Teaching Crime Fiction. Teaching the New English. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90608-9_1
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