Title: The double, the labyrinth and the locked room : metaphors of paradox in crime fiction and film /
Authors: Shiloh, Ilana.
Publisher: Peter Lang,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American History and criticism.; Detective and mystery films History and criticism; Metaphor in literature.; Metaphor in motion pictures.; Split self in literature.; Doubles in literature.
Contents: Introduction -- The deconstruction of reason in Poe's Tales of ratiocination. The double. Existential doubles : Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese falcon -- Subversive doubles : Patricia Highsmith's The talented Mr. Ripley -- Doubles : Christopher Nolan's Memento -- The labyrinth. Avatars of the labyrinth : Jorge Luis Borges's Death and the compass -- Justice as a labyrinth : the Coen Brothers' The man who wasn't there -- The book as a labyrinth : Mark Danielewski's House of leaves -- The locked room. The locked room of the self : Paul Auster's The New York trilogy -- Conclusion.