Muriel Spark’s Employment of Burlesque: Parody of Detective Fiction in Not to Disturb

• Authors: Serkan Ertin
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Parody contributes to the improvement of literary genres since it is the key to various popular subgenres as in the case of the development of detective fiction. Muriel Spark’s Not to Disturb, among the contemporary examples of parody of detective stories, is about a group of sinister servants in a Swiss chateu awaiting impatiently the bloody deaths of their employers, dictating memoirs and even selling the fim rights beforehand. Analysed in terms of its plot structure, characterisation and setting, the novel proves to be a brilliant example of parody of detective stories.

DE

Der Band enthält die Abstracts ausschließlich in englischer Sprache.

FR

Le numéro contient uniquement les résumés en anglais.

RU

Том не содержит аннотаций на английском языке.

Keywords

EN

parody; Muriel Spark; detective fiction; pastiche; postmodern novel

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FR

RU

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
• Journal: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2017

online

2017-07-04

Contributors

author

Serkan Ertin

References

• Abrams, M.H. (1988): A Glossary of Literary Terms. NewYork: The Dryden Press.
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• MacDonald, J. (1997): “Parody and Detective Fiction”. Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction. Jerome H. Delamater and Ruth Prigozy, eds. London: Greenwood.
• Melling, J. K. (1996): Murder Done to Death: Parody and Pastiche in Detective Fiction. London: The Scarecrow.
• Smith, J. R (1996): Detective Fiction. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt.
• Spark, M (1974): Not to Disturb. Middlesex: Penguin.

Identifiers

DOI

10.17951/lsmll.2017.41.1.65