LEADER 04636nam 2200853 450 001 9910455499003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-03733-1 010 $a9786612037337 010 $a1-4426-7712-0 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442677128 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004187 035 $a(EBL)3255284 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000302792 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11235064 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000302792 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10273890 035 $a(PQKB)10948025 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600622 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255284 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671714 035 $a(DE-B1597)464641 035 $a(OCoLC)944177768 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442677128 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671714 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257414 035 $a(OCoLC)815769003 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004187 100 $a20160921h19991999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMayhem and murder $enarrative and moral problems in the detective story /$fHeta Pyrho?nen 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1999. 210 4$d©1999 215 $a1 online resource (347 p.) 225 0 $aToronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-8267-X 311 $a0-8020-4489-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Projecting the Criminal -- $t2. Abduction: Interpreting Signs for Narrative Ends -- $t3. Fitting the Solution to the Mystery -- $t4. The Reading of Guilt -- $t5. Putting Together an Ethical View of Life -- $t6. The Anatomy of Good and Evil in Agatha Christie -- $t7. Symbolic Exchanges with Death: Raymond Chandler -- $tComing to an End -- $tNOTES -- $tWORKS CITED -- $tINDEX 330 $aThe detective story centres on unravelling two questions: whodunit? and who is guilty? In Murder and Mayhem, Heta Pyrhönen examines how these questions organize and pattern the genre's formal and thematic structures. Beginning with a semiotic reading of the detective as both code-breaker and sign-reader, Pyrhönen's theoretical analysis then situates the reader and the detective in parallel worlds - both use the detective genre's typical motifs in solving the crime, but do not employ the same narrative interpretations to do so. This difference is examined with the help of the familiar game analogy: while the fictional world of the criminal functions as the detective's antagonist, readers see both the detective and the criminal as the fictional masks behind which their own adversary, the author, is hiding. The reading of detective stories as complex interpretative games reveals how the genre engages the reader's formal imagination and moral judgment.Discussing a range of detective stories from works by Conan Doyle and Chesterton to Borges and Rendell, and drawing on the work of major critics - including Dennis Porter, Umberto Eco, John T. Irwin, and Slavoj Žižek - Pyrhönen offers a unique, sophisticated, and engagingly lucid analysis of a complex genre. 410 0$aToronto studies in semiotics 606 $aDetective and mystery stories, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDetective and mystery stories, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPopular literature$zEnglish-speaking countries$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDidactic fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMoral conditions in literature 606 $aGood and evil in literature 606 $aLiterature and morals 606 $aEthics in literature 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDetective and mystery stories, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDetective and mystery stories, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPopular literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDidactic fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMoral conditions in literature. 615 0$aGood and evil in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and morals. 615 0$aEthics in literature. 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric) 676 $a823/.087209 700 $aPyrho?nen$b Heta$f1960-$0972779 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455499003321 996 $aMayhem and murder$92474419 997 $aUNINA