Mayhem and Murder : Narative and Moral Issues in the Detective Story.
The detective story centres on unravelling two questions: whodunit? and who is guilty? In Murder and Mayhem, Heta Pyrhnen examines how these questions organize and pattern the genre's formal and thematic structures. Beginning with a semiotic reading of the detective as both code-breaker and sig...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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University of Toronto Press
1999.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
