Shiloh, Ilana. <br/><br/>
The double, the labyrinth and the locked room  metaphors of paradox in crime fiction and film /  [electronic resource] : 
Ilana Shiloh. 
 - New York :  Peter Lang,  c2011. 
 - viii, 186 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-182) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2012. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.<br/>Detective and mystery films--History and criticism.<br/>Metaphor in literature.<br/>Metaphor in motion pictures.<br/>Split self in literature.<br/>Doubles in literature.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS374.D4  / S52 2011eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.087209