RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Case of the Missing Literary Tradition: Reassessing Four Assumptions of Crime and Detective Novels in the German-Speaking World (1900–1933)
JF Monatshefte
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 431
OP 454
DO 10.3368/m.107.3.431
VO 107
IS 3
A1 Julia Karolle-Berg
YR 2015
UL http://mon.uwpress.org/content/107/3/431.abstract
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)