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Mystery and its fictions : from Oedipus to Agatha Christie

Title
  1. Mystery and its fictions : from Oedipus to Agatha Christie / David I. Grossvogel.
Published by
  1. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1979.
Author
  1. Grossvogel, David I., 1925-2020.

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Additional authors
  1. Dedalus Foundation, donor NN
Description
  1. xi, 203 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. 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.
Subject
  1. Detective and mystery plays
  2. Mystery in literature
  3. Detective and mystery stories
Genre/Form
  1. Detective and mystery fiction.
  2. Detective and mystery plays.
Contents
  1. 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
  1. JFE 79-2352
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index.
Additional formats (note)
  1. Also issued online.
Source (note)
  1. of the Dedalus Foundation;
Author
  1. Grossvogel, David I., 1925-2020.
Title
  1. Mystery and its fictions : from Oedipus to Agatha Christie / David I. Grossvogel.
Imprint
  1. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1979.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index.
Additional formats
  1. Also issued online.
Local note
  1. Copy in ReCAP 24-4331 inscribed.
Source
  1. Gift; of the Dedalus Foundation; 2024. NN
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Added author
  1. Dedalus Foundation, donor NN
Other form:
  1. Online version: Grossvogel, David I., 1925- Mystery and its fictions. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1979 (OCoLC)644739349
LCCN
  1. 78020516
ISBN
  1. 0801822017
  2. 9780801822018
Research call number
  1. ReCAP 24-4331
  2. JFE 79-2352
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