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Double, the Labyrinth and the Locked Room

Ilana Shiloh
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      Traditional detective fiction celebrates the victory of order and reason over the senseless violence of crime. Yet in spite of its apparent valorization of rationality, the detective genre has been associated from its inception with three paradoxical motifs – the double, the labyrinth and the locked room. Rational thought relies on binary oppositions, such as chaos and order, appearance and reality or truth and falsehood. Paradoxes subvert such customary distinctions, logically proving as true what we experientially know to be false. The present book explores detective and crime-mystery fiction and film from the perspective of their entrenched metaphors of paradox. This new and intriguing angle yields fresh insights into a genre that has become one of the hallmarks of postmodernism.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Ilana Shiloh EAN: 9780820468433 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 290 g HEIGHT: 230 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Peter Lang Publishing Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-11-11 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General WIDTH: 160 cm SPINE:

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      Canada, American English, Films, cinema, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Regional / International studies

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      Ilana Shiloh received her PhD in American literature from Tel Aviv University, where she taught detective fiction in the Department of English. Her previous book, Paul Auster and Postmodern Quest, has gained critical acclaim.
      Traditional detective fiction celebrates the victory of order and reason over the senseless violence of crime. Yet in spite of its apparent valorization of rationality, the detective genre has been associated from its inception with three paradoxical motifs – the double, the labyrinth and the locked room. Rational thought relies on binary oppositions, such as chaos and order, appearance and reality or truth and falsehood. Paradoxes subvert such customary distinctions, logically proving as true what we experientially know to be false. The present book explores detective and crime-mystery fiction and film from the perspective of their entrenched metaphors of paradox. This new and intriguing angle yields fresh insights into a genre that has become one of the hallmarks of postmodernism.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Ilana Shiloh EAN: 9780820468433 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 290 g HEIGHT: 230 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Peter Lang Publishing Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-11-11 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General WIDTH: 160 cm SPINE:

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      Canada, American English, Films, cinema, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Regional / International studies

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      Ilana Shiloh received her PhD in American literature from Tel Aviv University, where she taught detective fiction in the Department of English. Her previous book, Paul Auster and Postmodern Quest, has gained critical acclaim.

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