AustLit

'This paper looks at how crime fiction authors borrow not only from real life but from the crime fiction canon and literature when creating new works. Drawing on academic research and other novelists’ methods, it discusses self-reflexivity, self-consciousness, intertextuality, embedded text and mis en abyme within the crime fiction genre and how these features relate to ‘theft’/appropriation; specifically theft from ‘literary’ fiction, post-modern narrative structures and metaphysical detective novels. As a hybrid paper that includes creative extracts, it also examines the author’s use of these tools, and therefore appropriation, to write a PhD novel, ‘My Killer Secret’.'

Source: Abstract.