The double, the labyrinth and the locked room metaphors of paradox in crime fiction and film /

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Autor Principal: Shiloh, Ilana
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: New York : Peter Lang, c2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The deconstruction of reason in Poe's Tales of ratiocination. The double. Existential doubles : Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese falcon
  • Subversive doubles : Patricia Highsmith's The talented Mr. Ripley
  • Doubles : Christopher Nolan's Memento
  • The labyrinth. Avatars of the labyrinth : Jorge Luis Borges's Death and the compass
  • Justice as a labyrinth : the Coen Brothers' The man who wasn't there
  • The book as a labyrinth : Mark Danielewski's House of leaves
  • The locked room. The locked room of the self : Paul Auster's The New York trilogy
  • Conclusion.