What is it about?
This article shows how Tomeo challenges the norms of Spanish Crime Fiction through his use of parody
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Why is it important?
Since his death, criticism has suggested but never fully explored the role of the crime genre in the writer's fiction
Perspectives
This is my third article on Tomeo, in which I build a larger theoretical framework for the roles of parody and mass culture in his narrative oeuvre
Mark Pleiss
University of Colorado Boulder Norlin Library
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This page is a summary of: Discerning the Absurd: Metaphysical Detection, Parody and other Mysteries of Javier Tomeo’s Crime Fiction, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, September 2018, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/bhs.2018.50.
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