Mystery and Its Fictions: From Oedipus to Agatha ChristieJohns Hopkins University Press, 1979 - 203 Seiten Overview: Dedicated mystery fans, as well as those interested in literary theory or in the individual writers discussed, will find in Grossvogel's book an eloquent discourse on the relation of detective fiction to literary tradition. |
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... become , through his own ratiocination , the char- acter that fictional ratiocination is unable to create . The temptation of the detective to become wholly abstract can never be more than a temptation . The ideal represented by that ...
... become , through his own ratiocination , the char- acter that fictional ratiocination is unable to create . The temptation of the detective to become wholly abstract can never be more than a temptation . The ideal represented by that ...
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... become increasingly difficult to maintain . Since 1920 the world has continued to shrink , and the idea of the " alien " as represented by someone who is not quite like us has had to be modi- fied . Lately , Ian Fleming was still ...
... become increasingly difficult to maintain . Since 1920 the world has continued to shrink , and the idea of the " alien " as represented by someone who is not quite like us has had to be modi- fied . Lately , Ian Fleming was still ...
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... become effaced and lose their detail when they are forgotten " ( p . 14 ) , ideas do , in fact , multiply , and sciences , religion , letters , meta- physics ( " derivations of their language , ” p . 8 ) , “ do exist , and in almost ...
... become effaced and lose their detail when they are forgotten " ( p . 14 ) , ideas do , in fact , multiply , and sciences , religion , letters , meta- physics ( " derivations of their language , ” p . 8 ) , “ do exist , and in almost ...
Inhalt
Discovering Only the Discoverer | 23 |
Containment of the Unknown | 39 |
Divine Mystery and Literary Salvation | 53 |
Urheberrecht | |
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