A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Crime Files Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Reading Lists, Listing Clues
- Chapter 2: Defining Detective Fiction
- Precursors, Influences, Developments: From the Newgate Calendar to the Golden Age
- Beginnings: The Newgate Calendar
- Influences: Edgar Allan Poe, Eugène Vidoq, and Émile Gaboriau
- Precursors: Sensation Fiction
- Detectives and the Police
- Doyle and Positivism
- The Golden Age: Fair Play and the Clue Puzzle
- Excursus: Lists in the History of Detective Fiction-The Rule Catalogs of the Golden Age
- Chapter 3: Dossier Novels: The Reader as Detective
- Detection as a Scientific Process: Charles Warren Adams's The Notting Hill Mystery
- The Role of the Reader
- Detection as a Process
- Processes of Exactitude: Footnotes and Cross-referencing
- Processes of Exactitude: Structuring
- The Evidentiary Force of Authenticity
- Mesmerism, Lists, and Science
- Detection as a Game: The Murder Dossiers
- Murder Off Miami: The Case File
- Reading Strategies
- Herewith the Clues: The (Detection) Game
- Chapter 4: Manipulating Readers: The Novels of Agatha Christie
- Manipulating the Reader: Creating Patterns of Thinking
- Form and Attention
- Relevance and Visibility
- Categorization
- The Fair Play Rule
- Lists as the Detective's Tool: Creating Order
- Representing Thoughts
- Concealing Thoughts
- Breaking Down the Problem: Managing Boundaries
- Lists and Humor: A Meta-commentary on Detective Fiction
- Chapter 5: Excursus: The Thorndyke Novels and the Language of Science
- Creating Scientificity
- Framing: Language and Form
- Expert Knowledge
- Science Meets Creativity: Hypothesizing About Thorndyke's Method
- Chapter 6: Lists and Knowledge
- Sherlock Holmes and the (Victorian) Dream of Total Knowledge.
- Too Much to Know: Knowledge and Paper Technologies
- Listing Knowledge and the Encyclopedic Impulse
- The Adventure of the Reference Works
- The Case of the Case Index: On Absent Referents
- Knowledge and Visibility: The BBC's Sherlock
- Making Meaning Visible: Shared Affordances of Lists and Maps
- Knowledge, Lists, and Maps in the BBC's Sherlock
- Spatialization and Accessibility
- Navigating and Interpreting Knowledge
- Memory as Objective Data
- Compartmentalization
- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Models of Knowledge in Detective Fiction
- Works Cited
- Index.