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Aristotle detective6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It also serves as a useful introduction to this discussion, establishing a link between two potentially disparate subgenres, crime fiction and Renaissance tragedy, and highlighting some of the issues raised in the process of examining one in the light of the other. Sayers’s address, ‘Aristotle on Detective Fiction’, given at Oxford in 1935 and later published in her volume of critical essays, Unpopular Opinions (1946) is a clever, light-hearted argument for Aristotle’s appreciation of a good murder-mystery and his apparent anticipation of an entire genre. ![]()
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