Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction : The Locked Room Mystery / / by M. Cook

• Autore: Cook M
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2011.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.3872
• Soggetto topico: European literature; Literature - Philosophy; Culture - Study and teaching; Fiction; Literature, Modern - 19th century; European Literature; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Fiction Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction
• ISBN: 1-283-31779-6; 9786613317797; 0-230-31373-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812456203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Crime Files, . 2947-8359