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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - Thomas De Quincey

On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

Buch | Hardcover
128 Seiten
2009
Oneworld Classics Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84749-133-6 (ISBN)
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Offers a dispassionate analysis of the act of murder.
In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idiosyncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, literary criticism and aesthetic judgements, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial-killer John Williams. In addition to this essay's Swiftian exercise in irony, he investigated the Williams case further in a postscript, resulting in a dramatic suspense-filled narrative that prefigures Capote's "In Cold Blood" and the modern true-crime genre. De Quincey's seminal 1827 work was greatly influential on such writers as Poe, Baudelaire and Borges, and the trace of its impact can still be found today in modern satire, black humour and crime and detective fiction.

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) was an English essayist of the Romantic period, whose most famous work is Confessions of an Opium Eater.

Verlagsort Richmond
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-84749-133-2 / 1847491332
ISBN-13 978-1-84749-133-6 / 9781847491336
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