A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction
This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book analyzes how both readers and detectives rely on listing as an ordering and structuring tool, and highlights the c...
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023. |
| Series: | Crime Files,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Reading Lists, Listing Clues
- 2. Defining Detective Fiction
- 3. Dossier Novels: The Reader as Detective
- 4. Manipulating Readers: The Novels of Agatha Christie
- 5. Excursus: The Thorndyke Novels and the Language of Science
- 6. Lists and Knowledge
- 7. Conclusion: Models of Knowledge in Detective Fiction.