Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge: Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale
Author:   Antoine Dechêne
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2018
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9783319944685


Pages:   347
Publication Date:   14 September 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge: Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale


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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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Author:   Antoine Dechêne
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2018
Weight:   0.596kg
ISBN:  

9783319944685


ISBN 10:   3319944681
Pages:   347
Publication Date:   14 September 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"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"". "

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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). 

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