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Narratives of enclosure in detective fiction : the locked room mystery / Michael Cook.
Van Pelt Library PN3448.D4 C559 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cook, Michael, 1946-
- Series:
- Crime files series
- Crime files
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories.
- Rooms in literature.
- Setting (Literature).
- Space in literature.
- Place (Philosophy) in literature.
- Crime in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 210 pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Locked room mystery
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Summary:
- Since its invention in the nineteenth century, detective fiction has never been more popular, in novels, short stories, films, radio, television and now in computer games, private detectives and psychopaths, prim poisoners and overworked cops, tommy-gun gangsters and cocaine criminals are the very stuff of modern imagination, and their creators a mainstay of popular conciousness. Crime Files is a ground-breaking series offering scholars; students and discerning readers a comprehensive set of guides to the world of crime and detective fiction. Every aspect of crime writing, detective fiction, gangster movie, true-crime expose, police procedural and post-colonial investigation is explored through clear and informative texts offering comprehensive coverage and theoretical sophistication. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 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 story is the writer himself: Paul Auster's locked room in City of glass
- The narrative of enclosure.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230276659
- 0230276652
- OCLC:
- 711049325
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