M. Cook
Palgrave Macmillan UK
e druk, 2011
9781349325313
Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction
The Locked Room Mystery
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
e druk, 2011
ISBN13: 9781349325313
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
Crime Files
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
The locked room mystery is one of the iconic creations of popular fiction. Michael Cook's critical study reveals how this archetypal form of the puzzle story has had a significant effect in shaping the immensely popular genre of detective fiction. The book includes analysis of texts from Poe to the present day.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349325313
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Serie:Crime Files
Inhoudsopgave
Preface Edgar Allan Poe and the Detective Story Narrative The Locked Compartment: Charles Dickens's The Signalman and Enclosure in the Railway Mystery Story The Body in the Library: Reading the Locked Room in Anna Katherine Green's The Filigree Ball G.K. Chesterton's Enclosure of Orthodoxy in The Wrong Shape The Hollow Text: Illusion as Theme in John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man Jorge Luis Borges and the Labyrinth of Detection The Question is the Writer Himself: Paul Auster's Locked Room in the City of Glass The Narrative of Enclosure Index