{"ModuleCode":"EN4248","ModuleTitle":"Disclosure, Discovery and Detec/xtive Fiction","Department":"English Language & Literature","ModuleDescription":"This module is intended to function as a survey of detective fiction as a genre with a transhistorical framework, spanning work from the 1860s to the present. Topics covered will include: the historical conditions influencing the rise of detective fiction as a genre; the epistemological and sociological issues which inform our readings and our own desire as readers to uncover the mysterious; how the detective figure relates to the literary critic and the philosopher; the division between public/private spheres; the formal and thematic shifts in the genre and its pre-modern, modern and postmodern manifestations.","ModuleCredit":"5","Workload":"0-3-0-3-6.5","Prerequisite":"Cohort 2011 and before: Completed 80 MCs including 28 MCs in EN, with a minimum CAP of 3.50 or be on the Honours track. Cohort 2012 onwards: Completed 80 MCs including 28 MCs in EN, with a minimum CAP of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.","Types":["Module"],"History":[{"Semester":2,"LecturePeriods":["Tuesday Morning"]}]}