04636nam 2200853 450 991045549900332120200520144314.01-282-03733-197866120373371-4426-7712-010.3138/9781442677128(CKB)2420000000004187(EBL)3255284(SSID)ssj0000302792(PQKBManifestationID)11235064(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000302792(PQKBWorkID)10273890(PQKB)10948025(CaBNvSL)thg00600622 (MiAaPQ)EBC3255284(MiAaPQ)EBC4671714(DE-B1597)464641(OCoLC)944177768(DE-B1597)9781442677128(Au-PeEL)EBL4671714(CaPaEBR)ebr11257414(OCoLC)815769003(EXLCZ)99242000000000418720160921h19991999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMayhem and murder narrative and moral problems in the detective story /Heta PyrhönenToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,1999.©19991 online resource (347 p.)Toronto Studies in Semiotics and CommunicationDescription based upon print version of record.0-8020-8267-X 0-8020-4489-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Projecting the Criminal -- 2. Abduction: Interpreting Signs for Narrative Ends -- 3. Fitting the Solution to the Mystery -- 4. The Reading of Guilt -- 5. Putting Together an Ethical View of Life -- 6. The Anatomy of Good and Evil in Agatha Christie -- 7. Symbolic Exchanges with Death: Raymond Chandler -- Coming to an End -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX The detective story centres on unravelling two questions: whodunit? and who is guilty? In Murder and Mayhem, Heta Pyrhönen examines how these questions organize and pattern the genre's formal and thematic structures. Beginning with a semiotic reading of the detective as both code-breaker and sign-reader, Pyrhönen's theoretical analysis then situates the reader and the detective in parallel worlds - both use the detective genre's typical motifs in solving the crime, but do not employ the same narrative interpretations to do so. This difference is examined with the help of the familiar game analogy: while the fictional world of the criminal functions as the detective's antagonist, readers see both the detective and the criminal as the fictional masks behind which their own adversary, the author, is hiding. The reading of detective stories as complex interpretative games reveals how the genre engages the reader's formal imagination and moral judgment.Discussing a range of detective stories from works by Conan Doyle and Chesterton to Borges and Rendell, and drawing on the work of major critics - including Dennis Porter, Umberto Eco, John T. Irwin, and Slavoj Žižek - Pyrhönen offers a unique, sophisticated, and engagingly lucid analysis of a complex genre.Toronto studies in semioticsDetective and mystery stories, AmericanHistory and criticismDetective and mystery stories, EnglishHistory and criticismPopular literatureEnglish-speaking countriesHistory and criticismDidactic fictionHistory and criticismMoral conditions in literatureGood and evil in literatureLiterature and moralsEthics in literatureNarration (Rhetoric)Electronic books.Detective and mystery stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.Detective and mystery stories, EnglishHistory and criticism.Popular literatureHistory and criticism.Didactic fictionHistory and criticism.Moral conditions in literature.Good and evil in literature.Literature and morals.Ethics in literature.Narration (Rhetoric)823/.087209Pyrhönen Heta1960-972779MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455499003321Mayhem and murder2474419UNINA