2009 Press Releases
Stories of the crime genre
15.06.2009
Writing about crime has exerted a special fascination upon millions of readers worldwide since Edgar Allan Poe created the first fictional detective, Auguste Dupin, with the publication of The Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841.
15.06.2009
Writing about crime has exerted a special fascination upon millions of readers worldwide since Edgar Allan Poe created the first fictional detective, Auguste Dupin, with the publication of The Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841.
The bloodline runs down through Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple and Monsieur Poirot, to the modern day investigators of television programmes such as CSI and The Wire, and to the fictional detectives of writers in the English-speaking world and beyond.
The appeal of the genre owes much to its potential to negotiate cultural, temporal and conceptual boundaries, while continuing to satisfy the basic human need to resolve problems, to make sense of the incomprehensible, to seek truth, to find out ‘whodunit’ or why. It is little wonder then that researchers across a variety of disciplines should continue to be fascinated by the crime genre in all its manifestations, a scholarly interest exemplified by the forthcoming interdisciplinary conference, ‘Con(tra)vention: Crime and the Boundaries of Genre’, which will take place at UCC on Friday and Saturday, June 26th-27th 2009.
Although principally an academic conference, members of the general public are welcome to register to attend some or all of the papers. Visit http://www.ucc.ie/en/italian/crime/
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The appeal of the genre owes much to its potential to negotiate cultural, temporal and conceptual boundaries, while continuing to satisfy the basic human need to resolve problems, to make sense of the incomprehensible, to seek truth, to find out ‘whodunit’ or why. It is little wonder then that researchers across a variety of disciplines should continue to be fascinated by the crime genre in all its manifestations, a scholarly interest exemplified by the forthcoming interdisciplinary conference, ‘Con(tra)vention: Crime and the Boundaries of Genre’, which will take place at UCC on Friday and Saturday, June 26th-27th 2009.
Although principally an academic conference, members of the general public are welcome to register to attend some or all of the papers. Visit http://www.ucc.ie/en/italian/crime/
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