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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shiloh, Ilana
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Peter Lang, c2011.
Subjects:	Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism. Detective and mystery films > History and criticism. Metaphor in literature. Metaphor in motion pictures. Split self in literature. Doubles in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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.

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