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Mystery and its fictions : from Oedipus to Agatha Christie
- Title
- Mystery and its fictions : from Oedipus to Agatha Christie / David I. Grossvogel.
- Author
- Grossvogel, David I., 1925-2020.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1979.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 79-2352 | Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Dedalus Foundation, donor NN
- Description
- xi, 203 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Overview: Dedicated mystery fans, as well as those interested in literary theory or in the individual writers discussed, will find in Grossvogel's book an eloquent discourse on the relation of detective fiction to literary tradition.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Detective and mystery plays.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also issued online.
- Source (note)
- of the Dedalus Foundation;
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Word to start -- Introduction -- Oedipus the king: dis-covering only the discoverer -- Agatha Christie: containment of the unknown -- Dostoevsky: divine mystery and literary salvation -- Camus: a sense of life, the unknowable death -- Purloined letter: the mystery of the text -- Pirandello: the mask as evidence and limit -- Borges: the dream dreaming the dreamer -- Kafka: structure as mystery (I) -- Robbe-Grillet: structure as mystery (II) -- Conclusion: Job and the unendurable mystery -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 79-2352
- ISBN
- 0801822017
- 9780801822018
- LCCN
- 78020516
- OCLC
- 4515073
- Author
- Grossvogel, David I., 1925-2020.
- Title
- Mystery and its fictions : from Oedipus to Agatha Christie / David I. Grossvogel.
- Imprint
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1979.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index.
- Additional Formats
- Also issued online.
- Local Note
- Copy in ReCAP 24-4331 inscribed.
- Source
- Gift; of the Dedalus Foundation; 2024. NN
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Dedalus Foundation, donor NN
- Other Form:
- Online version: Grossvogel, David I., 1925- Mystery and its fictions. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1979 (OCoLC)644739349
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 24-4331JFE 79-2352