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Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism - Softcover

 
9780812216769: Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0812216768 ISBN 13: 9780812216769
Verlag: UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA PR, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Although readers of detective fiction ordinarily expect to learn the mystery's solution at the end, there is another kind of detective story—the history of which encompasses writers as diverse as Poe, Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Auster, and Stephen King—that ends with a question rather than an answer. The detective not only fails to solve the crime, but also confronts insoluble mysteries of interpretation and identity. As the contributors to Detecting Texts contend, such stories belong to a distinct genre, the "metaphysical detective story," in which the detective hero's inability to interpret the mystery inevitably casts doubt on the reader's similar attempt to make sense of the text and the world.

Detecting Texts includes an introduction by the editors that defines the metaphysical detective story and traces its history from Poe's classic tales to today's postmodernist experiments. In addition to the editors, contributors include Stephen Bernstein, Joel Black, John T. Irwin, Jeffrey T. Nealon, and others.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Patricia Merivale is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of British Columbia. Susan Elizabeth Sweeney is Associate Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross.

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Verlag
UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0812216768
ISBN 13 
9780812216769
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
Herausgeber
Merivale Patricia, Sweeney Susan Elizabeth
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