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1 online resource (264 pages) |
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature |
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Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Table and Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Embarking on a New Investigation; PART I: Disturbing Expectations; 1 Troubling Bodies of Evidence: Gender, Detection, and the Problems of self-reinvention in Raymond Chandler's The Lady in the Lake and Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods; 2 The Revelations of the Corpse: Interpreting the Body in the Golden Age Detective Novel; 3 Mapping the Mark: Tattoos, Crime Fiction, and Gendered Cartographies; PART II: Implicating Readers |
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4 The Transtextuality of James M. Cain's Snyder-Gray Novels: The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and The Cocktail Waitress5 P.D. James's Discontinuous Narrative: A Suitable Job for a Reader; 6 Franz Kafka: Before the Fictional Process; PART III: Indicting Cultures; 7 J.D. Robb's Police Procedurals and the Critique of Modernity; 8 Cooking the Books: Metafictional Myth and Ecocritical Magic in "Cozy" Mysteries from Agatha Christie to Contemporary Cooking Sleuths; 9 Romance Narratives, Blackmail, and the Price of knowledge in the Novels of Raymond Chandler |
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PART IV: Adapting Forms10 Agatha Christie's Mousetrap and Tom Stoppard's Real Inspector Hound: Playing Cat and Mouse with Farce, Mystery, and Meta-Theatricality; 11 Beyond the Fog: Inherent Vice and Thomas Pynchon's Noir Adjustment; 12 The Mystery of the Missing Formula: Adapting the World's Most Popular Girl Detective to Multimedia Platforms; Contributors; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Cannon, Mercy
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| ISBN |
9781315693071 |
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1315693070 |
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