THE “DETECTIVES” OF MYSTIC-RELIGIOUS POLICE NOVELS

Authors

  • Fernanda Massi UNESP / FCLAr

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21709/casa.v12i2.7206

Keywords:

Police novel, Detective, Secret, Mysticism, Religiosity

Abstract

Considering that the detective is the most important character of police narrative, this work analyzes, under the bias of discursive semiotics, the characterization of the profile of the subjects carrying out investigations in so-called "mystical-religious police novels" most sold in Brazil from 1980 to 2009. In these narratives, in addition to finding the subject who performed the crime and delivering it to a sender-judge responsible for his punishment, the "detective" must protect a mystical-religious secret belonging to a closed society. Besides not being extraordinary subjects (such as Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot etc.), the "detectives" of the mystical-religious police novels  cannot always be effective in fulfilling their tasks.

Author Biography

Fernanda Massi, UNESP / FCLAr

Professora do Departamento de Linguística da UNESP/Araraquara.

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Published

26/02/2015

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2014)

Section

Papers

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