PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Karolle-Berg, Julia
TI  - The Case of the Missing Literary Tradition: Reassessing Four Assumptions of Crime and Detective Novels in the German-Speaking World (1900–1933)
AID  - 10.3368/m.107.3.431
DP  - 2015 Sep 21
TA  - Monatshefte
PG  - 431--454
VI  - 107
IP  - 3
4099  - http://mon.uwpress.org/content/107/3/431.short
4100  - http://mon.uwpress.org/content/107/3/431.full
AB  - This article challenges four persistent assumptions in German-language postwar literary histories on crime and detective fiction that have led scholars to conclude that no literary tradition existed between 1900 and 1933 in the German-speaking world. These assumptions were that little German-language crime and detective fiction existed, that authors should still be well known today, that only works of high literature should constitute a tradition, and that crime and detective fiction should conform to Golden Age generic rules. By problematizing these assumptions, I provide an alternative perspective on the literature that existed and suggest approaches to understanding this invisible tradition. (JK-B)