Crime fiction trial questions (1 Viewer)

[MiuMiu]

What got thrown at you?

 

[Huy]

see this thread

"Cssa Trial"
http://www.boredofstudies.org/community/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9236

 

[MiuMiu]

Im starting to worry seeing all of the questions people have done.......how the hell do you discuss the validity of genre??

 

[Smarty_pants!]

I got,
'Crime fiction is more concerned with character and setting than the crime"
How true is this statment in the crime fiction u have studied.
and...
that stupid validity of genre one!
I got 21/25 for the first one, and 19/25 for the 2nd. I came 4th/16!

 

[pri]

in the validity couldnt u say because conventions are regularly broken and the genre is so dynamic, it somewhat loses its validity?

or perhaps is it alluding to academic merit?

 

[pri]

Originally posted by Smarty_pants!
I got,
'Crime fiction is more concerned with character and setting than the crime"

thats perfect for snow falling on cedars and skull beneath the skin

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Originally posted by pri
in the validity couldnt u say because conventions are regularly broken and the genre is so dynamic, it somewhat loses its validity?

or perhaps is it alluding to academic merit?

Yeah, although it can be argued either way. You can also argue that the flexibility of crime fiction is one of the reasons for it's continued endurance, in that it doesn't stagnate, it instead evolves to reflect changing contexts and popular tastes. (As seen in the polyphony of shows focusing upon forensic science in the last few years...Or the transition to a less discrimnatory role for women in crime fiction.). It's a testament to Guterson that Snow Falling On Cedars manages to work as a crime fiction text through appropriating the conventions in order to 'hook' the responder into reading his work, (With Carl's death being the ultimate red herring.) still satisfying the expectations of traditional crime fiction.