Ryunosuke's "In a Bamboo Grove" reflects the world at the times through the detective novel genre. Many Japanese modernists were pushing the language and its narrative in a new and unexplored direction with their shifting points of view, use of more concrete and solid prose-style writing, and perceptions of the senses. Japanese modernists were pushing the confines of the fiction genre in ways that had not really been explored before. ... While Ryunosuke's piece was inspired by the twelfth-century collection "Tales of Times Now Past," which is about a murder and ra...

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Edgar Allan Poe was known to the world for his horrific, jaw dropping short stories and poems and also for being a literary genius of his time due to the unfamiliar writing style he presented. Though well known for works such as: Annabel Lee, The Raven, The Tell Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado, Poe is also recognized as being the creator of Gothic writing. Poe's Gothic writing style primarily focused around the themes of death and mourning which lands him a place in the dark romanticism genre. His extreme writing style separates him from other writers as his dark tone creates him a...

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The development, adaptations and re-evaluations of crime novels from comedy to tragedy, from depictions of our society to the exploration of an individual; the crime genre is now a genre that incorporates many other genres. ... When Conan-Doyle was writing, televisions or computers hadn't been invented so people had a lot more time to read, this is perhaps the reason why the story "The Hound of Baskerville" has a slower pace and is more detailed. ... The hardboiled genre explores a deep uncertainty in regard to women grown powerful and independent. ... The criminals are portrayed differ...

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Hard-boiled detective fiction refers to a style of crime writing originating in America, which involves a tough and realistic approach to the genre. ... Day's crime thriller 'The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender' explores the basic characteristics of traditional detective fiction along the streets of Sydney while introducing an inversion of the genre. ... Day conforms to and challenges the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction through the inversion of the protagonist as a female detective, Claudia Valentine, a central character who pushes the boundaries of the detective fi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate