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. ey e g 1. Detection is rational rather than active or intuitional\" (Knight 78). Define what this means and use one of the three short stories (Orczy, Chesterton, or Freeman texts) we read this week to explicate how this is shown in the story you have chosen. 2. On page 90 in the Crime Fiction book you will find two quotes that take up divergent concepts of what the mystery genre is doing. \"[T]he form [is] an inherently conservative assertion that 'law, order and property are secure'\"; \"the detective story is a classic piece of bourgeois culture, shaped to conceal the exploitative reality of class society.\" Define what each of these phrases means and explain how and why | am positing them as diverging concepts. Once you have done so, based on what you have read and discussed in the first three weeks, which of these two assertions do you tend to agree with more strongly? How could early 20" century British society equally support both assertions? 3. Using the two short stories that you did not use in question one, explicate which traits the Crime Fiction text noted were central to British golden age fiction are found in the texts, and how they are used to further the mystery, the genteel nature of the characters, and the return of society from a state of uncertainty to one of security again by the end of the story. s N Discuss the major elements that Chapter Three in the Crime Fiction text tells us came together in society to result in a cultural space that was not only open to detective fiction, but primed to welcome and advance it (make sure to look at both the literary world and the real world beyond it). . How does Poe spending so long on a discussion of games at the beginning of \"Murders\" elucidate the character/process of Dupin? Does it function as an important clue to Dupin's character? To his method? Also, do you believe that you, the reader, possessed the requisite clues to be able to figure out the mysteries presented? Did you, in fact, figure out who the murderer was, or how the murderer came to be in the Rue Morgue, before Dupin told all? If no, can you look back at the text and see where you missed clues, or did Poe not provide enough information for you? Discuss. . Almost universally, critics consider Poe the originator of this genre, and Doyle the fine-tuner. Clearly when you look at \"Scandal\" there is much that feels as if it is lifted directly out of \"Murders." Yet, Doyle not only writes a significantly longer story, he also extends our understanding of the crime, the detective, and the solution considerably. Support or contest the idea that Doyle fine tunes Poe's genre framework with his Sherlock Holmes' stories