Paisaje en ficción detectivesca. Un estudio de Thirty First of February and The Players and the Game de Julian Symmons, Shroud for a Nightingale de P.D. James y Under my Skin de Sarah Dunant

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Ricardo J. Sola Buil

Abstract

The essay studies landscape and description of natural world in detective narrative,
paying attention briefly to the evolution of the genre, and dealing more specifically with
three authors we have met personally: Julian Symmons, P.D.James and Sarah Dunant,
quoting their own words, when necessary, in reference to detective narrative. We have
selected as material for our analysis, Julian Symmons´s, Thirty First of February and The
Players and the Game, P.D. James´s Shroud for a Nightingale, and Sarah Dunant´s Under my
Skin. Our conclusion is that far from being merely ornamental, landscapes in these
detective narratives have all of them the three basic functions of connecting the reader to
the religious, magical, mysterious, unknown world; connecting the reader to the literary
genre and connecting the reader to the daily life of dream and fact, of happiness and
sadness, of work and suffering, of love and death

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Paisaje en ficción detectivesca. Un estudio de Thirty First of February and The Players and the Game de Julian Symmons, Shroud for a Nightingale de P.D. James y Under my Skin de Sarah Dunant. (2015). VERBEIA. Revista De Estudios Filológicos. Journal of English and Spanish Studies, 1, 319-332. https://doi.org/10.57087/Verbeia.2015.4155

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