Jurnal Internasional Bahasa

Sage Publication : Language and Literature

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One way in which specific crime fiction texts achieve prominence is through critical discourses
which promote those texts’ ‘superior’ realism, valorizing the texts and setting them apart from
neighbouring generic narratives. This article goes back to the 1921 analysis by Roman Jakobson
which identifies a small number of strategies by which arguments about realism proceed.
Particularly important for crime fiction criticism is that approach to realism, described by
Jakobson, which focuses on contiguous details in narrative. In contrast to the claims of realism
is the analytic concept of verisimilitude, based on the ‘rules of the genre’ and ‘public opinion’
or doxa. Verisimilitude, it is argued, has the capacity to address the important issue of generic
stagnation, an example of which in crime fiction is the increasing reliance on murder (serial, single
or repeated) to propel a narrative. Amidst the conformity in the genre, the article identifies
complicity in the promotion of realism and the catalytic occurrence of murder as the key
constituents of crime fiction. It also points to some exceptions to this tendency.

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EJ3.6

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New York : Sage Publication., 2012

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EJ3.6

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