LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 12 December 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and
Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games as Detective Fiction –
M.Phil. Dissertation

S. Sridevi, M.A., M.Phil., B.Ed.

Contents

Chapter 1
Introduction

Chapter 2
Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost as Detective Fiction

Chapter 3
Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games as Detective Fiction

Chapter 4
Narrative Techniques

Chapter 5
Summation

Work Cited

Novel is a fictional narrative, long and complicated in structure, with life like representation of actions and characters. The modern novel is the typical growth of the eighteenth century. The word “Novel” is derived from Latin word “Novellus” and Italian word “Novella”, which means a “tale” or “Short story”. There are many types of novels as Historical novel, picaresque novel, Epistolary novel, Gothic novel, Regional Novel, Psychological Novel, Sentimental Novel, Historical novel, Romantic novel, Detective novel and science fiction.

Detective novel is one in which an investigator either professional or amateur investigates a crime or murder. Detective fiction can be divided into following branches. It is a subgenre of crime fiction. It is categorized as: The whodunit is the most common form of detective fiction. It features a complex, plot driven story in which the reader is provided with clues from which the identity of the perpetrator of the crime may be deduced before the solution is revealed at the end of the book. Locked Room Mystery is a specialized kind of whodunit in which the crime is committed under apparently impossible circumstances, such as locked room in which no intruder could have left. Cozy is a subgenre of detective fiction in which sex, profanity or violence are treated humorously. Hard-boiled is subgenre of detective fiction. It was tough, unsentimental style of American crime writing that brought a new tone of realism or naturalism to the field of detective fiction. It used graphic, sex and violence vivid but often sordid urban back ground and fast paced, slangy dialogue.

This is only the beginning part of the Dissertation. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE DISSERTATION IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

S. Sridevi, M.A., M.Phil., B.Ed.
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