Define sensation fiction
a kind of novel that has been seen as an early kiind of thriller that exposes dark secrets and consipiracies, but is distinguished from the classic detective story in that it lacks a detective figure. These novels exploit the elements of suspense and crime in stories of crime. It might also contain elements of the supernatural…ghostly elements.
Examples: Mary Elisabeth Braddon’s ‘Lady Audley’s secret and ‘The woman in White by Wilkie Collins
encompassing the Victorian age in England.
Define the gothic
A novel of terror an suspense usually set in a gloomy medieaveal castle. Many novels do not have medieaval settings but which share a comparable sinister, grotesque or claustrophopic atmosphere.
Examples: Mary Shelly’s Frankestein, Jane Eyre, Edgar Allen Poe, Dapne du Maurier Rebecca
What is a psycho- thriller according to Simpson
A sub genre of the thriller genre
What characterises a thriller ?
A thriller is comrised of a crime, there may be first a person narration, focuses on the criminal mind of the criminal. More a character study than a plot. A blend of psycholigcal an physical danger
What is the difference between crime fiction an thriller fiction?
Crime fiction is
What is a crime novel?
it violates the basic conventions of mystery and detective fiction. It tells the story from the point of view of the purpetrator
Who wrote the pursuit of crime?
Carl Malmgren. He discusses three basic forms of crime fiction : the classical mystery, the hard boiled, the crime novel were the protagonist becomes the criminal
How does thriller plots diffrentiate from each other?
How is crime fiction and thriller fiction interrelated?
thriller: at the crossroads between literatrue and cinema, psycho-thriller is a subgenre, more character study than plot
Philip Simpson wrote
Noir and the psycho-thriller in the book a companion to crime fiction
What does Philip simpson describe in the book a companion to the psycho-thriller?
That the psycho -trhiller is more a character study than a plot driven narrative
Maurizio Ascari wrote?
Talks about the development of the psycho -thriller because it is at the crossroads between literature and cinema, also he talks about the pre-history of the thriller.
What are some similarities that modern psycho-thrillers share with the sensation novels
the basic principle of suspense, or the heightened audience anxiety created when the protagonist is fighting a contest against what looks like overwhelming odds’
