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Author Cook, Michael, 1946-

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

Imprint Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiv, 210 p.
Series Crime files series
Crime files series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism.
Rooms in literature.
Setting (Literature)
Space in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Crime in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Locked room mystery
ISBN 9780230276659 (alk. paper)
9780230313736 (e-book)

 
    
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