The double, the labyrinth and the locked room [electronic resource] : metaphors of paradox in crime fiction and film / Ilana Shiloh.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Peter Lang, c2011.Description: viii, 186 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.087209 22
LOC classification:
  • PS374.D4 S52 2011eb
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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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-182) and index.

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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