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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... concern us here . What does concern us is man's continued effort to overcome the threat and the temptation presented by the unknown even after the failure of divine mediation , when he realizes that he is irremedi- ably confined to this ...
... concern us here . What does concern us is man's continued effort to overcome the threat and the temptation presented by the unknown even after the failure of divine mediation , when he realizes that he is irremedi- ably confined to this ...
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... concern formerly like the one induced by the reader's existential reality is reduced , in the detective story , to ... concerns ) has been abandoned ( along with the concomitant tension / interest of those concerns ) in exchange for the ...
... concern formerly like the one induced by the reader's existential reality is reduced , in the detective story , to ... concerns ) has been abandoned ( along with the concomitant tension / interest of those concerns ) in exchange for the ...
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... concern even more than us — or concern us in a fundamental way . The game proposed here , though it begins with riddles , cannot be con- tained or controlled by the mind . A further departure from detective fiction ( and a radical one ) ...
... concern even more than us — or concern us in a fundamental way . The game proposed here , though it begins with riddles , cannot be con- tained or controlled by the mind . A further departure from detective fiction ( and a radical one ) ...
Inhalt
Discovering Only the Discoverer | 23 |
Containment of the Unknown | 39 |
Divine Mystery and Literary Salvation | 53 |
Urheberrecht | |
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