Narratives of enclosure in detective fiction the locked room mystery / Michael Cook.
| Author/creator | Cook, Michael, 1946- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, |
| Description | xiv, 210 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Locked room mystery |
| Series | Crime files series |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011011753 |
| ISBN | 9780230276659 (alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |