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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. Sarah J. Link is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Wuppertal, Germany.

Literature, Modern --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Narratology. --- Epistemology. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Literature

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This open access book attempts to show that an examination of the list’s formal features has the potential to produce genuine insights into the production of knowledge, the poetics of literature and the composition of visual art. Following a conceptual introduction, the twelve single-authored chapters place the list in a variety of well-researched contexts, including ancient Roman historiography, medieval painting, Enlightenment periodicals, nineteenth-century botanical geography, American Beat poetry and contemporary photobooks. With its interdisciplinary approach, this book is a unique contribution to an emerging field dedicated to the study of lists.

Literature & literary studies --- Literature: history & criticism --- list making --- enumeration --- epistemology --- narrative --- new formalism --- epistemic form --- narrativity --- lists --- Open Access --- Lists --- Philosophy.

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What are the ›borderlands of narrativity› - the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of narrative meets other symbolic logics, such as data(base), play, spectacle, or ritual? The contributors open up a conversation about the ›beyond‹ of narrative, about the myriad constellations in which narrativity interlaces with, rubs against, or morphs into the principles of other forms. To conceptualize these borderlands, the book introduces the notion of »narrative liminality,« which the 16 articles utilize to engage literature, popular culture, digital technology, historical artifacts, and other kinds of texts from a time span of close to 200 years.

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- American Studies. --- Comic. --- Computer Games. --- Culture. --- Data. --- Literary Studies. --- Media. --- Narrative. --- Popular Culture. --- Television.