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Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge

- Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale

Om Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge

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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  • Språk:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9783319944685
  • Bindende:
  • Hardback
  • Sider:
  • 347
  • Utgitt:
  • 14. september 2018
  • Utgave:
  • 12018
  • Dimensjoner:
  • 148x210x0 mm.
  • Vekt:
  • 596 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
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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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