LEADER 03083nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910812456203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-31779-6 010 $a9786613317797 010 $a0-230-31373-6 024 7 $a10.1057/9780230313736 035 $a(CKB)2550000000064682 035 $a(EBL)797943 035 $a(OCoLC)759165981 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000555186 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11308422 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000555186 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10519565 035 $a(PQKB)10958097 035 $a(DE-He213)978-0-230-31373-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC797943 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000064682 100 $a20110325d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNarratives of enclosure in detective fiction $ethe locked room mystery /$fMichael Cook 205 $a1st ed. 2011. 210 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ;$aNew York $cPalgrave Macmillan$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 225 1 $aCrime files series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-349-32531-7 311 $a0-230-27665-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface -- 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. 330 $aThe locked room mystery is one of the iconic creations of popular fiction. Michael Cook's critical study reveals how this archetypal form of the puzzle story has had a significant effect in shaping the immensely popular genre of detective fiction. The book includes analysis of texts from Poe to the present day. 410 0$aCrime files series. 517 3 $aLocked room mystery 606 $aDetective and mystery stories$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRooms in literature 606 $aSetting (Literature) 606 $aSpace in literature 606 $aPlace (Philosophy) in literature 606 $aCrime in literature 615 0$aDetective and mystery stories$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRooms in literature. 615 0$aSetting (Literature) 615 0$aSpace in literature. 615 0$aPlace (Philosophy) in literature. 615 0$aCrime in literature. 676 $a809.3/872 700 $aCook$b Michael$f1946-$01751143 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812456203321 996 $aNarratives of enclosure in detective fiction$94185987 997 $aUNINA