Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge - Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dechene 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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Crime Files
Release date:	September 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Antoine Dechene
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	347
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-94468-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	3-319-94468-1
Barcode:	9783319944685

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