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 conve...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Series: | Crime Files
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| ISBN: | 9783319944692 |
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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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| Item Description: | Literature, Cultural and Media Studies |
| Physical Description: | XII, 347 p. 1 illus. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9783319944692 |