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Week 11 Detective Fiction

* Detective Fiction

 1.          Edgar Allan Poe “The Raven” (c.f.  Week 6 )

 2.         Agatha Christie “The Queen of Crime” (1890-1976)

Murder on the Orient Express(wiki) (official website) (biography) (IMDb)

3.          Arthur Conan Doyle (wiki) (official) (BBC) (bio.)

àSeries of Sherlock Holmes (wiki) (home) (stories) (museum)

(movie clip) (IMDb)

* Romance novel (wiki)

Don Quixote (wiki) (spark notes) (lit.) (text)

Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. 

Chivalric (c.f. Week 10)

Three important concepts of chivalry:

a. Duties to countrymen and fellow Christians: warrior chivalry

b. Duties to God: religious chivalry

c. Duties to women: courtly love chivalry

*Bildungsroman (link) “Araby” initiation (wiki) (c.f. Week 8)

* Point of View (wiki) (link) (pov)

Narrative point of view in the creative writing of fiction describes the narrator's position in relation to the story being told.

1. First-Person The Great Gatsby

2. Third-Person Harry Potter

* D.H. Lawrence (wiki) (c.f. Week 12)  

*Etymology

1. shire/bury: Yorkshire; Canterbury (place to live)

2. ium: auditorium (area)