Screen LibraryNarratives of enclosure in detective fiction the locked room mystery /
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...
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230313736 |
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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. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230276659, 2011. |
| Carrier Form: | 224 p. : 1 b&w, ill., 1. |
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9780230276659 9780230313736 : 0230313736 : |
| CLC: | I106.4 |
| 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 Question is the Writer Himself: Paul Auster's Locked Room in the City of Glass The Narrative of Enclosure Index. |