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Phantasm of a detective riddle

Author(s): Dominik Sulej
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Riddle; detective novel; Agatha Christie;Vladimir Nabokov;
Summary/Abstract: The paper contains a semiotic characteristics of a riddle as a structure implemented in narrative prose. The aim of Agatha Christie’s and Vladimir Nabokov’s novels analysis is to prove that a riddle structure stays intact under specific conditions – the text must be a kind of a frame story which includes mise en abyme.

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