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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Hlavní autor: Dechêne, Antoine (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Edice:Crime Files
Témata:
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature, Modern-21st century.
America-Literatures.
British literature.
European literature.
ISBN:9783319944692
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  • 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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