A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction /

This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book analyzes how both readers and detectives rely on listing as an ordering and structuring tool, and highlights the c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Link, Sarah J. (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:	1st ed. 2023.
Series:	Crime Files,
Subjects:	Literature, Modern-20th century. Literature, Modern-21st century. Narration (Rhetoric). Knowledge, Theory of. Twentieth-Century Literature. Contemporary Literature. Narratology. Epistemology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Reading Lists, Listing Clues
2. Defining Detective Fiction
3. Dossier Novels: The Reader as Detective
4. Manipulating Readers: The Novels of Agatha Christie
5. Excursus: The Thorndyke Novels and the Language of Science
6. Lists and Knowledge
7. Conclusion: Models of Knowledge in Detective Fiction.