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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... created by his functional dependency on the " mystery , " the reader is offered that same de- pendency so as to become , through his own ratiocination , the char- acter that fictional ratiocination is unable to create . The temptation ...
... created by his functional dependency on the " mystery , " the reader is offered that same de- pendency so as to become , through his own ratiocination , the char- acter that fictional ratiocination is unable to create . The temptation ...
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... create the world , then , as we all know , He created it according to the geometry of Euclid and the human mind with the conception of only three dimensions in space " ( p . 216 ) . Ivan is the man who cannot brook emprisonment within ...
... create the world , then , as we all know , He created it according to the geometry of Euclid and the human mind with the conception of only three dimensions in space " ( p . 216 ) . Ivan is the man who cannot brook emprisonment within ...
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... creates his world out of the alphabet's letters , and those who decipher his world do so by reading the evidence of ... create a text about ( and ultimately as undecipherable as ) the " Book of God " ( for example , in " The Circular ...
... creates his world out of the alphabet's letters , and those who decipher his world do so by reading the evidence of ... create a text about ( and ultimately as undecipherable as ) the " Book of God " ( for example , in " The Circular ...
Inhalt
Discovering Only the Discoverer | 23 |
Containment of the Unknown | 39 |
Divine Mystery and Literary Salvation | 53 |
Urheberrecht | |
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