Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge
Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale
This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dechêne calls the metacognitive mystery tale. It delineates a corpus of texts presenting 'unreadable' mysteries which, under the deceptively monolithic appearance of subverting traditional detective story conventions, offer a multiplicity of motifs – the overwhelming presence of chance, the unfulfilled quest for knowledge, the urban stroller lost in a labyrinthine text – that generate a vast array of epistemological and ontological uncertainties. Analysing the works of a wide variety of authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, and Henry James, this book is vital reading for scholars of detective fiction.
| Autor: | Dechêne, Antoine |
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| ISBN: | 9783319944685 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 347 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 14.09.2018 |
| Untertitel: | Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale |
| Schlagworte: | City Detective Edgar Allan Poe Flaneur Henry James Herman Melville Iain Sinclair Mystery tale Nathaniel Hawthorne Urban |
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