Comments - The first ever detective fiction; really? - CrimeSpace2024-03-28T21:28:15Zhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=537324%3ABlogPost%3A332373&xn_auth=noIs that all? I thought the tr…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2012-02-24:537324:Comment:3324062012-02-24T06:01:32.764ZBenjamin Sobieckhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/BenjaminSobieck
<p>Is that all? I thought the tradition was a lot older than that.</p>
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<p>Is that all? I thought the tradition was a lot older than that.</p>
<p></p> Oh, I suppose it would be ide…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2012-02-24:537324:Comment:3324932012-02-24T05:16:06.621ZD. L. R.https://crimespace.ning.com/profile/DLR
<p>Oh, I suppose it would be ideal just to refer to the actual text:</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.poemuseum.org/works-morgue.php">http://www.poemuseum.org/works-morgue.php</a></p>
<p>Oh, I suppose it would be ideal just to refer to the actual text:</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.poemuseum.org/works-morgue.php">http://www.poemuseum.org/works-morgue.php</a></p> From Wikipedia
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The Murders…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2012-02-24:537324:Comment:3324052012-02-24T05:05:45.717ZD. L. R.https://crimespace.ning.com/profile/DLR
<p>From Wikipedia </p>
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<p><b>The Murders in the Rue Morgue</b>" is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_story" title="Short story">short story</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a> published in<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_Magazine" title="Graham's Magazine">Graham's Magazine</a></i> in 1841. It has been recognized as the first …</p>
<p>From Wikipedia </p>
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<p><b>The Murders in the Rue Morgue</b>" is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_story" title="Short story">short story</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a> published in<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_Magazine" title="Graham's Magazine">Graham's Magazine</a></i> in 1841. It has been recognized as the first <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_fiction" title="Detective fiction">detective story</a>;<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue#cite_note-Silverman171-0">[1]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue#cite_note-Meyers123-1">[2]</a></sup> Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ratiocination" title="wikt:ratiocination">ratiocination</a>".<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue#cite_note-Silverman171-0">[1]</a></sup> Two works that share some similarities predate Poe's stories, including <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mademoiselle_de_Scuderi" title="Mademoiselle de Scuderi">Das Fräulein von Scuderi</a></i> (1819) by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T.A._Hoffmann" title="E.T.A. Hoffmann">E.T.A. Hoffmann</a><sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue#cite_note-Booker507-2">[3]</a></sup> and <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadig" title="Zadig">Zadig</a></i> (1748) by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire" title="Voltaire">Voltaire</a>.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue#cite_note-Silverman173-3">[4]</a></sup></p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Auguste_Dupin" title="C. Auguste Dupin">C. Auguste Dupin</a> is a man in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human.</p>
<p>As the first true detective in fiction, the Dupin character established many literary devices which would be used in future fictional detectives including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes" title="Sherlock Holmes">Sherlock Holmes</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercule_Poirot" title="Hercule Poirot">Hercule Poirot</a>. Many later characters, for example, follow Poe's model of the brilliant detective, his personal friend who serves as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrator" title="Narrator">narrator</a>, and the final revelation being presented before the reasoning that leads up to it. Dupin himself reappears in "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Marie_Rog%C3%AAt" title="The Mystery of Marie Rogêt">The Mystery of Marie Rogêt</a>" and "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purloined_Letter" title="The Purloined Letter">The Purloined Letter</a>".</p>
<p></p> NICE.....:) I guess these fol…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2012-02-24:537324:Comment:3324912012-02-24T01:54:12.440ZEhsan Ehsanihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/EhsanEhsani
<p>NICE.....:) I guess these folks were strictly talking about detective fiction. Do you think Poe's work falls into that category?</p>
<p>NICE.....:) I guess these folks were strictly talking about detective fiction. Do you think Poe's work falls into that category?</p> But…? "The Murders in the Rue…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2012-02-24:537324:Comment:3322922012-02-24T01:15:43.253ZD. L. R.https://crimespace.ning.com/profile/DLR
<p>But…? "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allen Poe, was published iin Graham’s Magazine in 1841.</p>
<p>But…? "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allen Poe, was published iin Graham’s Magazine in 1841.</p>