Mayhem and Murder : : Narative and Moral Issues in the Detective Story / / Heta Pyrhönen.
The detective story centres on unravelling two questions: whodunit? and who is guilty? In Murder and Mayhem, Heta Pyrhönen 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 si...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Idioma: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
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| Descrición Física: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction
- I: Investigating 'Whodunit'
- 1. Projecting the Criminal
- 2. Abduction: Interpreting Signs for Narrative Ends
- 3. Fitting the Solution to the Mystery
- II: Investigating Guilt
- 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
- NOTES
- WORKS CITED
- INDEX