03231nam 22007575 450 991081245620332120230810132354.01-283-31779-697866133177970-230-31373-610.1057/9780230313736(CKB)2550000000064682(EBL)797943(OCoLC)759165981(SSID)ssj0000555186(PQKBManifestationID)11308422(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000555186(PQKBWorkID)10519565(PQKB)10958097(DE-He213)978-0-230-31373-6(MiAaPQ)EBC797943(EXLCZ)99255000000006468220151126d2011 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNarratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction The Locked Room Mystery /by M. Cook1st ed. 2011.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2011.1 online resource (225 p.)Crime Files,2947-8359Description based upon print version of record.1-349-32531-7 0-230-27665-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Crime Files,2947-8359European literatureLiteraturePhilosophyCultureStudy and teachingFictionLiterature, Modern19th centuryEuropean LiteratureLiterary TheoryCultural TheoryFiction LiteratureNineteenth-Century LiteratureEuropean literature.LiteraturePhilosophy.CultureStudy and teaching.Fiction.Literature, Modern19th century.European Literature.Literary Theory.Cultural Theory.Fiction Literature.Nineteenth-Century Literature.809.3872Cook Mauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1333788BOOK9910812456203321Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction4002305UNINA