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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... sight ( and about the ultimate failure of sight ) in order to convey a sense of the fascination and danger inherent in mystery when mystery is felt to contain that which might abrogate our pro - ject . Nathaniel's eyes are threatened by ...
... sight ( and about the ultimate failure of sight ) in order to convey a sense of the fascination and danger inherent in mystery when mystery is felt to contain that which might abrogate our pro - ject . Nathaniel's eyes are threatened by ...
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... sight in Tiresias , the second sight in Oedipus that he cannot recognize until he does away with eyes that mislead him ( the second sight of the psychoanalyst ? ) , is thus granted the spectator . Its pur- pose is to teach him what it ...
... sight in Tiresias , the second sight in Oedipus that he cannot recognize until he does away with eyes that mislead him ( the second sight of the psychoanalyst ? ) , is thus granted the spectator . Its pur- pose is to teach him what it ...
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... sight fragmented . We are dealing with an utterly different kind of detective : the private eye of the more usual kind is his own privacy ; he is not our sight— our sight is his unperceptive sidekick's , and our questions , funneled ...
... sight fragmented . We are dealing with an utterly different kind of detective : the private eye of the more usual kind is his own privacy ; he is not our sight— our sight is his unperceptive sidekick's , and our questions , funneled ...
Inhalt
Discovering Only the Discoverer | 23 |
Containment of the Unknown | 39 |
Divine Mystery and Literary Salvation | 53 |
Urheberrecht | |
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