Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge : Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale Paperback / softback
by Antoine Dechene
Part of the Crime Files series
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This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dechene 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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- Pages:347 pages, 1 Tables, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 347 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:21/12/2018
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- ISBN:9783030068585
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:347 pages, 1 Tables, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 347 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:21/12/2018
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- ISBN:9783030068585
