Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge: Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale
- ISBN-10
- 331994469X
- ISBN-13
- 9783319944692
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 347
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-08-16
- Publisher
- Springer
- Author
- Antoine Dechêne
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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