A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction.

A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction.

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Superior document:Crime Files Series
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Link, Sarah J.
Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2023.
©2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Crime Files Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (215 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Reading Lists, Listing Clues
  • Chapter 2: Defining Detective Fiction
  • Precursors, Influences, Developments: From the Newgate Calendar to the Golden Age
  • Beginnings: The Newgate Calendar
  • Influences: Edgar Allan Poe, Eugène Vidoq, and Émile Gaboriau
  • Precursors: Sensation Fiction
  • Detectives and the Police
  • Doyle and Positivism
  • The Golden Age: Fair Play and the Clue Puzzle
  • Excursus: Lists in the History of Detective Fiction-The Rule Catalogs of the Golden Age
  • Chapter 3: Dossier Novels: The Reader as Detective
  • Detection as a Scientific Process: Charles Warren Adams's The Notting Hill Mystery
  • The Role of the Reader
  • Detection as a Process
  • Processes of Exactitude: Footnotes and Cross-referencing
  • Processes of Exactitude: Structuring
  • The Evidentiary Force of Authenticity
  • Mesmerism, Lists, and Science
  • Detection as a Game: The Murder Dossiers
  • Murder Off Miami: The Case File
  • Reading Strategies
  • Herewith the Clues: The (Detection) Game
  • Chapter 4: Manipulating Readers: The Novels of Agatha Christie
  • Manipulating the Reader: Creating Patterns of Thinking
  • Form and Attention
  • Relevance and Visibility
  • Categorization
  • The Fair Play Rule
  • Lists as the Detective's Tool: Creating Order
  • Representing Thoughts
  • Concealing Thoughts
  • Breaking Down the Problem: Managing Boundaries
  • Lists and Humor: A Meta-commentary on Detective Fiction
  • Chapter 5: Excursus: The Thorndyke Novels and the Language of Science
  • Creating Scientificity
  • Framing: Language and Form
  • Expert Knowledge
  • Science Meets Creativity: Hypothesizing About Thorndyke's Method
  • Chapter 6: Lists and Knowledge
  • Sherlock Holmes and the (Victorian) Dream of Total Knowledge.
  • Too Much to Know: Knowledge and Paper Technologies
  • Listing Knowledge and the Encyclopedic Impulse
  • The Adventure of the Reference Works
  • The Case of the Case Index: On Absent Referents
  • Knowledge and Visibility: The BBC's Sherlock
  • Making Meaning Visible: Shared Affordances of Lists and Maps
  • Knowledge, Lists, and Maps in the BBC's Sherlock
  • Spatialization and Accessibility
  • Navigating and Interpreting Knowledge
  • Memory as Objective Data
  • Compartmentalization
  • Chapter 7: Conclusion: Models of Knowledge in Detective Fiction
  • Works Cited
  • Index.

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