Rhys William Tyers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5407531 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rhys William Tyers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rhys William |
| FAMILY NAME | Tyers |
| SIGNATURE | TYERS R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0605-5251 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Detecting Discipline & Control: J.G. Ballard’s Running Wild
J.G. Ballard‘s 13th novel Running Wild (1996) investigates our media-saturated society and its representations. His ideas are explored through experimental and confrontational narratives, which invite us into a world in which desire, violence and innovation collide. Denying neat categorization and incorporating elements from a variety of genres including dystopian science fiction and the detective novel, Ballard’s books are confronting, disturbin…
Modiano’s detective: In search of lost memory
This article argues that Patrick Modiano’s The Black Notebook (2003) is influenced by and, at the same time, critically revises crime fiction tropes. Many researchers have identified and discussed Modiano’s fascination with memory and identity (Wardi, Scherman, Sanyal) and memory and history (VanderWolk, Hendrix, Gratton, Prus) as well as the fact that the author consistently uses devices and tropes from detective fiction (Cooke, Kawakami, Botta)…
Detecting Meaninglessness and Meaning in Don DeLillo’s Players
This article discusses Don DeLillo’s Players as a critique of the media and the extent to which our lives are shaped and influenced by our interaction with the detective and thriller genres. Drawing upon Baudrillard’s definition of the hyperreal and Jameson’s understanding of postmodernity, I explore the novel’s depiction of Lyle and Pammy Wynant’s journey as a reaction against the controlling nature of the media, and the couple’s experience of t…
Historiographic Metafiction and the Metaphysical Detective in Roberto Bolaño’s Amulet
Roberto Bolaño’s Amulet explores the writing of history as an attempt to construct a narrative from a multitude of unreliable and conflicting sources. As a result, any attempt at historiography is also plagued by the problems of representation found in literature. More particularly, not unlike detective fiction, history is concerned with identifying the inspirations and actions of its players and with revealing the truth about an episode or serie…
The Labyrinth and the Non-Solution: Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase and the Metaphysical Detective
Many of Murakami’s novels demonstrate his appropriation of the terminology, imagery and metaphor that are found in hardboiled detective fiction. The question of Haruki Murakami’s use of the tropes from hardboiled detective stories has been discussed by scholars such as Hantke (2007), Stretcher (2002) and Suter (2008), who argue that the writer uses these features as a way to organize his narratives and to pay homage to one of his literary heroes,…
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The Labyrinth and the Non-Solution: Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase and the Metaphysical Detective
Many of Murakami’s novels demonstrate his appropriation of the terminology, imagery and metaphor that are found in hardboiled detective fiction. The question of Haruki Murakami’s use of the tropes from hardboiled detective stories has been discussed by scholars such as Hantke (2007), Stretcher (2002) and Suter (2008), who argue that the writer uses these features as a way to organize his narratives and to pay homage to one of his literary heroes,…
Historiographic Metafiction and the Metaphysical Detective in Roberto Bolaño’s Amulet
Roberto Bolaño’s Amulet explores the writing of history as an attempt to construct a narrative from a multitude of unreliable and conflicting sources. As a result, any attempt at historiography is also plagued by the problems of representation found in literature. More particularly, not unlike detective fiction, history is concerned with identifying the inspirations and actions of its players and with revealing the truth about an episode or serie…
Modiano’s detective: In search of lost memory
This article argues that Patrick Modiano’s The Black Notebook (2003) is influenced by and, at the same time, critically revises crime fiction tropes. Many researchers have identified and discussed Modiano’s fascination with memory and identity (Wardi, Scherman, Sanyal) and memory and history (VanderWolk, Hendrix, Gratton, Prus) as well as the fact that the author consistently uses devices and tropes from detective fiction (Cooke, Kawakami, Botta)…
Detecting Meaninglessness and Meaning in Don DeLillo’s Players
This article discusses Don DeLillo’s Players as a critique of the media and the extent to which our lives are shaped and influenced by our interaction with the detective and thriller genres. Drawing upon Baudrillard’s definition of the hyperreal and Jameson’s understanding of postmodernity, I explore the novel’s depiction of Lyle and Pammy Wynant’s journey as a reaction against the controlling nature of the media, and the couple’s experience of t…
Detecting Discipline & Control: J.G. Ballard’s Running Wild
J.G. Ballard‘s 13th novel Running Wild (1996) investigates our media-saturated society and its representations. His ideas are explored through experimental and confrontational narratives, which invite us into a world in which desire, violence and innovation collide. Denying neat categorization and incorporating elements from a variety of genres including dystopian science fiction and the detective novel, Ballard’s books are confronting, disturbin…
Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Narrative Theory and Analysis (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (2 works) · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (2 works)