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1 online resource (338 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Toronto studies in semiotics
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Toronto studies in semiotics.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Introduction""; ""I: Investigating 'Whodunit'""; ""1 Projecting the Criminal""; ""I Am Not You: The Inbuilt Repulsion of Opposites""; ""You Are My Construction""; ""I Am You: Union through Malevolent Sympathy""; ""2 Abduction: Interpreting Signs for Narrative Ends""; ""The Abductive Method""; ""Types of Abduction in the Service of Narrative Construction""; ""Abducting World Structures""; ""3 Fitting the Solution to the Mystery""; ""Theming as a Game of Double Entendre""; ""Theming as a Game of Antagonistic Pursuit""; ""II: Investigating Guilt"" |
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""4 The Reading of Guilt""""Constructing Ethos on the Basis of Observations""; ""Projecting the Agent's Ethos from Action""; ""Ethos as the Basis for Assigning Guilt and Responsibility""; ""Engaging the Reader's Ethos""; ""5 Putting Together an Ethical View of Life""; ""The Play's the Thing: Indifference and Ethics in the Whodunit""; ""Tough Games: Moral Murkiness and the Hard-Boiled Narrative""; ""6 The Anatomy of Good and Evil in Agatha Christie""; ""Geometrical Patterns in Evil under the Sun""; ""Desiring That Which Others Desire""; ""Hercules and the Mark of Cain"" |
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""Playing the Author's Game""""7 Symbolic Exchanges with Death: Raymond Chandler""; ""Geometrical Patterns in The Long Goodbye""; ""Encounters with Death""; ""Remember Me When I Am Gone Away: Elegiac Patterns in Chandler's Fiction""; ""Coming to an End""; ""NOTES""; ""WORKS CITED""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""W""; ""Z"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery stories. |
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Semiotics and literature.
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Semiotics and literature. |
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Detective and mystery fiction -- History and criticism.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pyrhönen, Heta, 1960- Mayhem and murder. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1999 9780802044891 (DLC) 00503497 (OCoLC)43684864 |
| ISBN |
9781442677128 (electronic book) |
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1442677120 (electronic book) |
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0802044891 (bound) |
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080208267X (paperback) |
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9780802044891 |
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9780802082671 |
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