Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale / by Antoine Dechêne.

• 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".

• 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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Literature.  (LCSH)

European literature.  (LCSH)

British literature.  (LCSH)

Literature, Modern  -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Literature, Modern  -- 21st century. (LCSH)

America  -- Literatures. (LCSH)

Literature. 

Twentieth-Century Literature. 

Contemporary Literature. 

North American Literature. 

British and Irish Literature. 

European Literature. 

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PN770-PN779 (LCC)

LIT024050 (ämneskategori)

809.04 (DDC)