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Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale
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Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge [electronic resource] : Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale / by Antoine Dechêne.
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9783319944692
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Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
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1 online resource (XII, 347 p.) 1 illus.
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Summary
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.
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English
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September 07, 2018
Series
Crime Files
Contents
I. The Problem of Knowledge
1. From the Metaphysical Detective Story to the Metacognitive Mystery Tale
2. Enigmas of the Sublime and the Grotesque
II. From the flâneur to the Stalker
3. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Man of the Crowd"
4. Jorge Luis Borges's Textual Labyrinths
5. Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy
III The Grotesque
6. Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"
7. Samuel Beckett's Molloy
8. Roberto Bolaño's Monsieur Pain
IV. The Sublime
9. Henry James's "The Figure in the Carpet".-10. Horacio Quiroga's "The Pursued"
V. In Lieu of a Conclusion: Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Wakefield".
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