TY - BOOK AU - Shiloh,Ilana ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The double, the labyrinth and the locked room: metaphors of paradox in crime fiction and film AV - PS374.D4 S52 2011eb U1 - 813/.087209 22 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Peter Lang KW - Detective and mystery stories, American KW - History and criticism KW - Detective and mystery films KW - Metaphor in literature KW - Metaphor in motion pictures KW - Split self in literature KW - Doubles in literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2012; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10516854 ER -