Narratives of enclosure in detective fiction [electronic resource] : the locked room mystery / Michael Cook.

By: Cook, Michael, 1946-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Crime files seriesPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Description: xiv, 210 pOther title: Locked room mysterySubject(s): Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism | Rooms in literature | Setting (Literature) | Space in literature | Place (Philosophy) in literature | Crime in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809.3/872 LOC classification: PN3448.D4 | C559 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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.

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