Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge
Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale
Published on 21. December 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 347 pages
978-3-030-06858-5 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1
1 farbige Tabelle, 1 s/w Abbildung
1 Tables, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 347 p. 1 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
470 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-030-06858-5 (9783030068585)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-94469-2
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Antoine Dechêne
Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge
Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale
Book
09/2018
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
Antoine Dechêne holds a PhD from the Université de Liège, Belgium. His research deals with all aspects of the metaphysical detective story in the USA and in France. He is co-editor with Michel Delville of the first volume dedicated to the genre in French: Le Thriller métaphysique d'Edgar Allan Poe à nos jours (2016).
Content
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".