1. Crime Fiction Session Five: Martin Amis, Night Train

2. Agenda Genre: the police procedural and noir Martin Amis: defamiliarisation

3. Genre: The Police Procedural

7. Ed McBain Colin Dexter (?) Ian Rankin (?) Detective: Police force vs protagonist Crime: Multiple vs single crime Criminal: Identity known vs identity revealed

8. Genre: Noir: The Big Heat

9. Genre: Noir / Hardboiled Dashiell Hammett Raymond Chandler James M. Cain

10. Martin Amis Defamiliarisation Character: motivation and identity Plot: beginning, middle, end. Tragedy, comedy, tragic farce, black comedy

11. Martin Amis, Night Train The narration: Why does Mike Hoolihan narrate this story? When? Story and plot Character Motifs and Themes TV, gender, police, crime, suicide, cosmology

12. Martin Amis, Night Train ”Bring me something I can live with. Because I can’t live with this” (19) ”Who was she, Mike?” (64)