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Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge

Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale
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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. 

Author Biography:

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). 
Release date Australia
September 14th, 2018
Pages
347
Edition
1st ed. 2018
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
1 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 347 p. 1 illus.
ISBN-13
9783319944685
Product ID
28116539

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