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| 說明 | 1 online resource (xiv, 201 p.) |
| 系列 | Crime files series |
| Crime files series |
| 附註 | The locked room has long fascinated readers of detective fiction with its images of entrapment and entombment. Narratives of€Enclosure is the first full length critical study of the Locked Room Mystery, tracing its origins in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', the first detective story, up to the modern era. Looking beyond the facade of the impossible crime to examine stories by Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, John Dickson Carr and Paul Auster, Michael Cook uses critical and thematic contexts to show how the idea of enclosure has informed detective fiction at every stage in its history. Whether in the narrative itself, as in John Dickson Carr's classic Golden Age novel The Hollow Man, or the psychological relationship with physical environments in Dickens's 'The Signalman', the metaphor of the locked room casts a long shadow on the wider genre |
| 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€Question is the Writer Himself: Paul Auster's Locked Room in the City of Glass -- The Narrative of Enclosure -- Index -- |
| 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 |
| 主題 | Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism |
| Rooms in literature |
| Setting (Literature) |
| Space in literature |
| Place (Philosophy) in literature |
| Crime in literature |
| LITERARY CRITICISM / Mystery & Detective |
| Electronic books |
| Electronic books. |
| 其他題名 | Locked room mystery |
| ISBN/ISSN | 9780230313736 (electronic bk.) |
| 0230313736 (electronic bk.) |
| 9780230276659 (alk. paper) |
