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  1. Narratives of enclosure in detective fiction
    the locked room mystery
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills [u.a.]

    Includes bibliographical references and index 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... more

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    Includes bibliographical references and index 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

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780230276659; 9780230313736; 9781283317795
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Crime files series
    Subjects: Setting (Literature); Space in literature; Place (Philosophy) in literature; Crime in literature; Rooms in literature; Detective and mystery stories; Literature, Modern-19th century; Electronic books
    Scope: XIV, 210 S., Ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index

    Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Edgar Allan Poe and the Detective Story Narrative; 2 The Locked Compartment: Charles Dickens's 'The Signalman' and Enclosure in the Railway Mystery Story; 3 The Body in the Library: Reading the Locked Room in Anna Katherine Green's The Filigree Ball; 4 G. K. Chesterton's Enclosure of Orthodoxy in 'The Wrong Shape'; 5 The Hollow Text: Illusion as Theme in John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man; 6 Jorge Luis Borges and the Labyrinth of Detection; 7 The Question is the Writer Himself: Paul Auster's Locked Room in City of Glass

    8 The Narrative of EnclosureNotes; Select Bibliography; Index;