Eva Sandberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 86047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eva Sandberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eva |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandberg |
| SIGNATURE | SANDBERG E |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7384-9943 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Under the net: Universal Time, Modernism, and the Subversive Temporality of Golden Age Detective Fiction
While the relationship between modernism and its ‘sister-genre’ detective fiction [Brian McHale, Postmodern Fiction (New York: Methuen, 1987), p. 59] has tended to be characterised in oppositional terms, recent scholarship has challenged this conceptualisation, arguing that the two forms can be productively read in relation to each other. However, the ways in which detective fiction, like modernist writing, is invested in questions of temporality…
Inherent Vice, Bleeding Edge, and Thomas Pynchon's Hardboiled
The critics have noted that Thomas Pynchon's work tends to center around attempts to unravel mysteries, yet, these would-be etective plots have generally been associated with epistemological or ontological quest narratives rather than with crime fiction. However, Pynchon's two most recent novels, Inherent Vice (2009) and Bleeding Edge (2013), engage directly and openly with the conventions of the hardboiled. This paper explores Pynchon's use of t…
Life, Simple and Heroic”: H. Rider Haggard's Unfulfilled Nordic Vision
This essay reads H. Rider Haggard's adaptation of the Icelandic Sagas, Eric Brighteyes, as an ultimately unsuccessful imaginative flight from modernity. Haggard simplifies the saga model to create a fictional world free of what he sees as modernity's complexity and corruption. However, this anti-modern vision of the past is consistently undercut by the very ambiguities Haggard seeks to avoid. The titular protagonist of the novel is an equivocal h…
Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State
Andrew Pepper opens his study of crime fiction from the seventeenth century to the present day with the provocative observation that the commercial success of leading writers in the genre, “coupled
A Terrible Beauty is Born”: Erskine Childers’ The Riddle of the Sands , the Spy Thriller and Modern Identity
Erskine Childers’ 1903 The Riddle of the Sands represents a transition point between the invasion scare novel and the emerging espionage novel. One of its main contributions to the latter is its representation of “normal” people as they are caught up in events of historical significance. The amateur status of its spies, particularly the narrator Carruthers, both preserves them from the opprobrium of dishonest and dishonourable behaviour, and make…
Modernism in a Global Context
The Changing Politics of Non-Governmental Organizations and African States
The Changing Politics of Non-Governmental Organizations and African States
Modernism in a Global Context
Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State
Andrew Pepper opens his study of crime fiction from the seventeenth century to the present day with the provocative observation that the commercial success of leading writers in the genre, “coupled
A Terrible Beauty is Born”: Erskine Childers’ The Riddle of the Sands , the Spy Thriller and Modern Identity
Erskine Childers’ 1903 The Riddle of the Sands represents a transition point between the invasion scare novel and the emerging espionage novel. One of its main contributions to the latter is its representation of “normal” people as they are caught up in events of historical significance. The amateur status of its spies, particularly the narrator Carruthers, both preserves them from the opprobrium of dishonest and dishonourable behaviour, and make…
Inherent Vice, Bleeding Edge, and Thomas Pynchon's Hardboiled
The critics have noted that Thomas Pynchon's work tends to center around attempts to unravel mysteries, yet, these would-be etective plots have generally been associated with epistemological or ontological quest narratives rather than with crime fiction. However, Pynchon's two most recent novels, Inherent Vice (2009) and Bleeding Edge (2013), engage directly and openly with the conventions of the hardboiled. This paper explores Pynchon's use of t…
Life, Simple and Heroic”: H. Rider Haggard's Unfulfilled Nordic Vision
This essay reads H. Rider Haggard's adaptation of the Icelandic Sagas, Eric Brighteyes, as an ultimately unsuccessful imaginative flight from modernity. Haggard simplifies the saga model to create a fictional world free of what he sees as modernity's complexity and corruption. However, this anti-modern vision of the past is consistently undercut by the very ambiguities Haggard seeks to avoid. The titular protagonist of the novel is an equivocal h…
Under the net: Universal Time, Modernism, and the Subversive Temporality of Golden Age Detective Fiction
While the relationship between modernism and its ‘sister-genre’ detective fiction [Brian McHale, Postmodern Fiction (New York: Methuen, 1987), p. 59] has tended to be characterised in oppositional terms, recent scholarship has challenged this conceptualisation, arguing that the two forms can be productively read in relation to each other. However, the ways in which detective fiction, like modernist writing, is invested in questions of temporality…
Art (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)