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Cover Stories (Routledge Revivals) - Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (Paperback)
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Cover Stories (Routledge Revivals) - Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1987, this title tracks the spy thriller from
John Buchanan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carre, and
shows how these tales of spies, moles, and the secret service tell
a history of modern society, translating the political and cultural
transformations of the twentieth century into the intrigues of a
shadow world of secret agents. Combining cultural history with
narrative analysis, Cover Stories explores the two main traditions
of the thriller: the thriller of the work, in which bureaucratic
routines are invested with political meaning; and the thriller of
leisure, in which the sports and games that kill time become a time
of dangerous political contests. Examining the characteristic
narrative structures of the spy novel - the adventure formulas and
the plots of betrayal, disguise and doubles - Denning shows how
they attempt to resolve crises and contradictions in ideologies of
nation and empire, and of class and gender.
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