It takes the average reader 3 hours and 39 minutes to read A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction by Sarah J. Link
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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 crucial role that lists assume in the reading process. It extends the boundaries of an emerging field dedicated to the study of lists in literature and caters to a newly revived interest in form and New Formalist approaches in narratological research. The central aim of this book is to show how detective fiction makes use of lists in order to frame various conceptions of knowledge. The frames created by these lists are crucial to decoding the texts, and they can be used to demonstrate how readers can be engaged in the act of detection or manipulated into accepting certain propositions in the text.
A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction by Sarah J. Link is 215 pages long, and a total of 54,825 words.
This makes it 73% the length of the average book. It also has 67% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 59 minutes to read A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction aloud.
A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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