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Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Date Issued
2002
Description
G. K. Chesterton is known for writing detective fiction, his Father Brown crime stories being his most popular works. Chesterton, however, wrote more than a hundred books. The Man Who Was Thursday is Chesterton's fictional masterpiece. The novel reveals the author as a creative genius, at least equal to now-better-known writers of his time, such as Conrad and Kafka. Chesterton tells detective Gabriel Syme's tale in the novel, which also exudes an autobiographical flavor, giving fragments of Chesterton's own story of his escape from fin-de-siecle pessimism. As literary art, the novel merges the detective genre with the genre of the fantastic. The result is a wild tale of fun and romance, with more than a little philosophical argument in the mix. Using Tzvetan Todorov's theory of structuralism, I unveil the many masks of Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday. The outcome is a better understanding of G. K. Chesterton's rebellion into orthodoxy.
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78 p.
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Identifier
9780493722054
ISBN
9780493722054
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Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2002.
Date Backup
2002
Date Text
2002
Date Issued (EDTF)
2002
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FAU
FAU
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FADT12913
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monographic
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Attributed name: Florida Atlantic University
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Knapp, Steven L.
Graduate College
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78 p.
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G. K. Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday": Merging detective fiction with the fantastic
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2002
monographic
Boca Raton, Fla.
Florida Atlantic University
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Florida Atlantic University Libraries
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Boca Raton, Fla.
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Digital Library
Title
G. K. Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday": Merging detective fiction with the fantastic
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G. K. Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday": Merging detective fiction with the fantastic