TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ilana Shiloh
PY  - 2011
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453900888
TI  - The Double, the Labyrinth and the Locked Room
T2  - Metaphors of Paradox in Crime Fiction and Film
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0088-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054416
N2  - Traditional detective fiction celebrates the victory of order and reason over the senseless violence of crime. Yet in spite of its apparent valorization of rationality, the detective genre has been associated from its inception with three paradoxical motifs – the double, the labyrinth and the locked room. Rational thought relies on binary oppositions, such as chaos and order, appearance and reality or truth and falsehood. Paradoxes subvert such customary distinctions, logically proving as true what we experientially know to be false.  The present book explores detective and crime-mystery fiction and film from the perspective of their entrenched metaphors of paradox. This new and intriguing angle yields fresh insights into a genre that has become one of the hallmarks of postmodernism.
KW  - logical paradoxes, labyrinth, double, locked room, detective fiction and cinema
LA  - English
ER  -