The double, the labyrinth and the locked room
Subtitle: metaphors of paradox in crime fiction and film
By: Ilana Shiloh
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780820468433
Subjects: Split self in literature; American Detective and mystery stories; Detective and mystery films; Metaphor in motion pictures; History and criticism; Metaphor in literature; Doubles in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-182) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The deconstruction of reason in Poe's Tales of ratiocination. The double. Existential doubles : Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese falcon; title: Subversive doubles : Patricia Highsmith's The talented Mr. Ripley; title: Doubles : Christopher Nolan's Memento; title: The labyrinth. Avatars of the labyrinth : Jorge Luis Borges's Death and the compass; title: Justice as a labyrinth : the Coen Brothers' The man who wasn't there; title: The book as a labyrinth : Mark Danielewski's House of leaves; title: The locked room. The locked room of the self : Paul Auster's The New York trilogy; title: Conclusion.