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Mystery Fiction

X103.9 (3 semester units in English)

Recipient of the Helen Williams Award for Excellence in Collegiate Independent Study from the American Association of Collegiate Independent Study

This course surveys mystery fiction and its conventions, from the nineteenth-century origins of the genre to the classic Golden Age puzzle to the American hard-boiled female detective fiction of the 1990s. The course makes the case for the mystery novel's status as a significant form of modern fiction, one that explores how human consciousness makes sense out of what might otherwise be viewed as random experience and meaningless violence.

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