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