Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale
Titre:
Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale
ISBN (Numéro international normalisé des livres):
9783319944692
Auteur personnel:
Edition:
1st ed. 2018.
PRODUCTION_INFO:
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Description physique:
XII, 347 p. 1 illus. online resource.
Collections:
Crime Files,
Table des matières:
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". .
Extrait:
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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Langue:
Anglais