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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... darkness and danger that lurk on the other side of understanding . In the earliest epics , the intercessory figure is that of the warrior - king functioning as the instrument of a god by whose divine right he exists , and for the ...
... darkness and danger that lurk on the other side of understanding . In the earliest epics , the intercessory figure is that of the warrior - king functioning as the instrument of a god by whose divine right he exists , and for the ...
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... darkness and the underworld ) with his arrows ( rays ) . But once the god is associated with mystery , he is contaminated by the forces of darkness and becomes the more dangerous Apollo Loxias , the oblique , who , like any mediator of ...
... darkness and the underworld ) with his arrows ( rays ) . But once the god is associated with mystery , he is contaminated by the forces of darkness and becomes the more dangerous Apollo Loxias , the oblique , who , like any mediator of ...
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... darkness of the story than to its reader . The triad Poe - Dupin - D-- is confirmed by other similarities between Dupin and D-- . The story that Poe invents - the theft and conceal- ment of a letter for the purpose of wielding power ...
... darkness of the story than to its reader . The triad Poe - Dupin - D-- is confirmed by other similarities between Dupin and D-- . The story that Poe invents - the theft and conceal- ment of a letter for the purpose of wielding power ...
Inhalt
Discovering Only the Discoverer | 23 |
Containment of the Unknown | 39 |
Divine Mystery and Literary Salvation | 53 |
Urheberrecht | |
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