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Locked Rooms and Interpreting Readers: The Role of Embedded Texts in the Locked-Room Mysteries of Poe, Leroux, and Christie

Stoermer, Carolyn E.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1214591200

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2008, Master of Arts (MA), Wright State University, English.
As closed narratives, locked-room mysteries risk the sense of interpretive play for which the larger detective genre is known. To mitigate this risk, writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Gaston Leroux, and Agatha Christie incorporate embedded texts into their locked-room stories. These recreated documents encourage readers' involvement by eliciting culturally specific interpretive reactions. Studying how these authors' embedded texts simultaneously innovate and conserve within the locked-room subgenre brings critics closer to understanding exactly how the detective story earned its reputation as one of the most engaging forms of fiction.
James Guthrie, PhD (Committee Chair)
Carol Loranger, PhD (Committee Member)
Annette Oxindine, PhD (Committee Member)
62 p.
Literature
detective fiction; locked-room mysteries; embedded texts; reader-response; Wolfgang Iser; Edgar Allan Poe; Gaston Leroux; Agatha Christie

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  • Stoermer, C. E. (2008). Locked Rooms and Interpreting Readers: The Role of Embedded Texts in the Locked-Room Mysteries of Poe, Leroux, and Christie [Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1214591200

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stoermer, Carolyn. Locked Rooms and Interpreting Readers: The Role of Embedded Texts in the Locked-Room Mysteries of Poe, Leroux, and Christie. 2008. Wright State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1214591200.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stoermer, Carolyn. "Locked Rooms and Interpreting Readers: The Role of Embedded Texts in the Locked-Room Mysteries of Poe, Leroux, and Christie." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1214591200

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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