Punt?

Ah, Tuesday.  One-pager Eve.  It is most likely that we'll postpone a vigorous discussion on the blog this week and rededicate ourselves next week when we have an official post-er.   But if your checking in here with the blog suggests a deep desire to talk about detective fiction, rather than a dutiful compliance with the rules of the seminar, I will throw out one of the more provocative ideas we touched upon briefly in class.  Nancy Armstrong groups detective fiction with those fringe genres that had the potential to produce a different kind of individual/subject than the one produced by a kind of canonical, realist novel.  This both seems to work with D. A. Miller's argument that the Novel aids and abets the production of a disciplined individual and against it: different genres produce different, and arguably less disciplined subjects.  Do you find this argument compelling?  What literary critical paths might it lead us down?  What assumptions about genre is it making?