Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge
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"Using examples from the works of writers and artists as diverse as Poe, Melville, Beckett, Borges, Bolaño, and Auster and confronting them with old and recent theories about the goals and methods of governing "mainstream" detective fiction, Antoine Dechêne's impressive volume takes us beyond a consideration of the detective genre per se into a reconsideration of neglected domains of thinking which only a full confrontation with the genre's diversity and plasticity can reveal." (Michel Delville, Université de Liège, Belgium)"Daring and ambitious in its approach, up to date and cutting edge in its scholarship, and always solid and frequently brilliant in its analysis, Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge will make a significant contribution to popular culture studies generally and crime fiction studies in particular, as it convincingly argues for the superiority of the term metacognitive mystery tale over metaphysical detective story." (John Gruesser, Sam Houston State University, USA)
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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".