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The Reader and the Detective Story George N. Dove Popular Press The Reader and the Detective Story is unique—it treats the detective story as a special case of reading, governed by special rules and shaped by a highly specialized formula. The method of interpretation is the application of the principles of response theory (especially those developed by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Wolfgang Iser, and Hans Robert Jauss) to the reading of a tale of detection. George Dove demonstrates how the English soft-boiled mystery and the American private-eye story, although they have different settings and develop different plots, belong in the same subgenre and follow the same formula, inherited directly from Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

Published in 1997 LC: 96-047340 PN 216 pp.   6 x 9 ISBN-10: 0-87972-731-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-731-4 Cloth $39.95 t ISBN-10: 0-87972-732-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-732-1 Paper $16.95 t Add titles to your shopping cart by clicking on the bulleted lines below. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with your credit card. Click here for a further explanation of the shopping cart feature Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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