GMALL Masterworks of Fiction Lecture 2: “Crime & Punishment”

Before Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, or Philip Marlowe captured the world’s imagination, writers had to invent the literary detective, whose eccentric personality and unpredictable actions have led to the genre’s remarkable popularity, adaptability, and longevity. In this course we explore the origins of detective fiction by examining three masterworks of the genre from the mid nineteenth century.

Lecture Two: Crime and Punishment
March 8
We then turn on March 8th to Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (1866), which shifts our attention from “whodunit” to “whydunit,” revealing the psychological and philosophical potential of the genre through detective Porfiry Petrovich.

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