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Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers
One of the most fascinating comments often made about Dorothy l. Sayers is that she wrote "real" novels. Catherine Kenney considers why Sayers mysteries tend to strike astute readers this way, and in so doing, suggests her place not only in the history of detection, but in the larger tradi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Saint Louis :
Kent State University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Documents in the Case
- Part I: A Detective in the House of Fiction
- 1. The Making of a Mystery Writer
- 2. Toward a Poetics of Detection
- 3. The Development of a Novelist
- 4. The Nine Tailors and the Riddle of the Universe
- 5. Gaudy Night and the Mystery of the Human Heart
- Part II: Sayers on Women: An Inquiry into the Fatal Subject
- 6. Assaying the Subject
- 7. Unnatural Death and the Testimony of Superfluous Women
- 8. Neither Gods nor Beasts: Men, Women, and The Documents in the Case
- 9. A Precarious Balance: Love, Work, and Play in the Vane-Wimsey Quartet
- Part III: A Witness of Universal Truth: The Religious Dimension of Sayers's Art
- 10. The Religious Background
- 11. Moral Fiction
- 12. A Crisis in Christendom and The Man Born to Be King
- 13. The Mind of the Maker: A Fascinating and Majestic Mystery
- Final Judgment: A Writer First and Foremost
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.