Narratives of enclosure in detective fiction : the locked room mystery / / Michael Cook.
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| Superior document: | Crime files series |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Crime files series.
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 210 p. |
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Table of 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.