William´s english blog

Earlier this year in our English class we studied the genre of crime fiction, all the way from very first texts that would fall under the genre, to the newest trends in the crime fiction and looked at how the genre had evolved though out time. Overall I thoroughly enjoyed the topic of "crime fiction" both in the general sense but also in the educational context. I personally find the genre to be very intriguing and alluring due to its secretive nature, the mysteries and the race at guessing who the real killer is before it is unveiled, only to chock us that it was "that" person that did it. Sometimes even the perplexity that the stories root in the reader has its own charm due to the misleading and deceiving clues that help stir the rather similar stories up. I find it, that it can, as a reader be exciting to try and glance through into the core of the mystery since they can be very hard to determine who the killer is, and who might seem shady on the outside but...

Since its birth in the 1800s, crime fiction has become a dominant and permanent genre, in almost all different types of literature and related medias. The genre has through out the time undergone a variety of makeovers and reshapements, from the early pioneers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Agatha Christie, to the hard boiled “noir” fiction writers,  has  the genre shape shifted and adopted to the times and the change of readers; and this constant everlasting adaptation does not seem to stop.  Sarah Hughes is a journalist that examines and analyzes this fairly resent change in the genre and has recently released an article concerning this topic. Her article is from the 3 July 2016 called “ After Agatha Christie… female crime writers delve deep into women worst fears ”. In her article Hughes argues and that the genre in the recent past has changed from a genre dominated by masculinity into becoming a genre lead by women writing stories that are more focused on the psy...