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Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction : The Locked Room Mystery / by M. Cook.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cook, Michael, 1946-
- Series:
- Crime Files, 2947-8359
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European literature.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Fiction.
- Literature, Modern--19th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- European Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Fiction Literature.
- Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- European Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Fiction Literature.
- Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2011.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613317797
- 9781283317795
- 1283317796
- 9780230313736
- 0230313736
- OCLC:
- 759165981
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