Mayhem and Murder : Narative and Moral Issues in the Detective Story.

The detective story centres on unravelling two questions: whodunit? and who is guilty? In Murder and Mayhem, Heta Pyrhnen examines how these questions organize and pattern the genre's formal and thematic structures. Beginning with a semiotic reading of the detective as both code-breaker and sig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Toronto Press 1999.
Temas:
Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, English > History and criticism.
Popular literature > English-speaking countries > History and criticism.
Didactic fiction > History and criticism.
Moral conditions in literature.
Good and evil in literature.
Literature and morals.
Ethics in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Paralittérature > Anglophonie > Histoire et critique.
Roman didactique > Histoire et critique.
Conditions morales dans la littérature.
Littérature et morale.
Morale dans la littérature.
Narration.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Detective and mystery stories, American
Detective and mystery stories, English
Didactic fiction
Ethics in literature
Good and evil in literature
Literature and morals
Moral conditions in literature
Popular literature
Ethiek.
Misdaadverhalen.
Morale > Dans la litterature.
Litterature et morale.
Roman policier anglais > Histoire et critique.
Roman policier americain > Histoire et critique.
English-speaking countries
Detective and mystery stories > History and criticism.
e-books.
Detective and mystery fiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Livres numériques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Projecting the criminal
  • 2. Abduction : interpreting signs for narrative ends
  • 3. Fitting the solution to the mystery
  • 4. The reading of guilt
  • 5. Putting together an ethical view of life
  • 6. The anatomy of good and evil in Agatha Christie
  • 7. Symbolic exchanges with death : Raymond Chandler
  • Coming to an end.

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