D. A. Miller
D. A. Miller teaches English and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He writes a column for Film Quarterly and has published books that include Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style, Bringing Out Roland Barthes and most recently 8½ in 2011.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 2
Language of Detective Fiction: Fiction of Detective Language
D. A. Miller
‘The criminal language of detective fiction is subject to the same liability to backfire as crime itself.’