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題名 Criminal Sleight of Hand: The Detective Magician as Transitional Figure 作者 Yan, Zi-Ling 貢獻者 文山評論：文學與文化 關鍵詞 magic and magicians in literature ; detective fiction ; pulps ; criminality ; ideology 日期 2020-12 上傳時間 17-Nov-2021 13:57:45 (UTC+8) 摘要 The detective magician, an American subgenre, was popularized by several series characters between 1935 and 1945. This decade comprises a meeting point between different strains of detective fiction: the waning years of the Golden Age, a highpoint of hard-boiled pulp detectives, and the rise of the espionage novel. Following Ernest Mandel`s general chronology from Delightful Murder, I argue that the detective magician serves as a transitional figure who embodies contradictory impulses: the conflation of mystification and demystification, the supernatural and the rational, and justice and criminality. After a preliminary discussion of magic`s self-dividedness, I review the overlap between magic, theology, and science in the context of the nineteenth century, moving from there to the interrelation of these threads with detective fiction. Important theoretical writers include Simon During and Michael Saler. I then explain why stage magic is an appropriate vehicle to represent these contradictions through discussions of exemplary detective stories by G. T. Fleming- Roberts, Walter Gibson, Clayton Rawson, and Sax Rohmer. 關聯 文山評論：文學與文化, 14(1), 33-59 資料類型 article DOI https://doi.org/10.30395/WSR.202012_14(1).0002 dc.contributor 文山評論：文學與文化 dc.creator (作者) Yan, Zi-Ling dc.date (日期) 2020-12 dc.date.accessioned 17-Nov-2021 13:57:45 (UTC+8) - dc.date.available 17-Nov-2021 13:57:45 (UTC+8) - dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 17-Nov-2021 13:57:45 (UTC+8) - dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/137835 - dc.description.abstract (摘要) The detective magician, an American subgenre, was popularized by several series characters between 1935 and 1945. This decade comprises a meeting point between different strains of detective fiction: the waning years of the Golden Age, a highpoint of hard-boiled pulp detectives, and the rise of the espionage novel. Following Ernest Mandel`s general chronology from Delightful Murder, I argue that the detective magician serves as a transitional figure who embodies contradictory impulses: the conflation of mystification and demystification, the supernatural and the rational, and justice and criminality. After a preliminary discussion of magic`s self-dividedness, I review the overlap between magic, theology, and science in the context of the nineteenth century, moving from there to the interrelation of these threads with detective fiction. Important theoretical writers include Simon During and Michael Saler. I then explain why stage magic is an appropriate vehicle to represent these contradictions through discussions of exemplary detective stories by G. T. Fleming- Roberts, Walter Gibson, Clayton Rawson, and Sax Rohmer. dc.format.extent 383100 bytes - dc.format.mimetype application/pdf - dc.relation (關聯) 文山評論：文學與文化, 14(1), 33-59 dc.subject (關鍵詞) magic and magicians in literature ; detective fiction ; pulps ; criminality ; ideology dc.title (題名) Criminal Sleight of Hand: The Detective Magician as Transitional Figure dc.type (資料類型) article dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.30395/WSR.202012_14(1).0002 dc.doi.uri (DOI) https://doi.org/10.30395/WSR.202012_14(1).0002
