Mystery and Its Fictions: From Oedipus to Agatha ChristieOverview: 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. |
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Page 30
... present circumstances : " it's I who have the power that he had once , / and have his bed , and a wife who shares our seed " ( lines 259-60 ) ; or again , when he vows vengeance for the death of Laius , " as if for my own father , / I ...
... present circumstances : " it's I who have the power that he had once , / and have his bed , and a wife who shares our seed " ( lines 259-60 ) ; or again , when he vows vengeance for the death of Laius , " as if for my own father , / I ...
Page 104
... present air mail forms , a single sheet of which only one side was used for the writing of the letter that was then folded twice and sealed , with the address written on the other , blank , side ) . This address D-- has rewritten in a ...
... present air mail forms , a single sheet of which only one side was used for the writing of the letter that was then folded twice and sealed , with the address written on the other , blank , side ) . This address D-- has rewritten in a ...
Page 131
... present in the fiction of Cortázar , who may have derived it from Borges ) : the insubstantial reflection of the mirror becomes the image ( even as it begins to devise fictional struc- tures of its own ) of this failure . Dreams and ...
... present in the fiction of Cortázar , who may have derived it from Borges ) : the insubstantial reflection of the mirror becomes the image ( even as it begins to devise fictional struc- tures of its own ) of this failure . Dreams and ...
Contents
Discovering Only the Discoverer | 23 |
Containment of the Unknown | 39 |
Divine Mystery and Literary Salvation | 53 |
Copyright | |
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