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Detecting Texts - The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism (Paperback, New)
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Detecting Texts - The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism (Paperback, New)
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Although readers of detective fiction ordinarily expect to learn
the mystery's solution at the end, there is another kind of
detective story-the history of which encompasses writers as diverse
as Poe, Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Auster, and Stephen King-that ends
with a question rather than an answer. The detective not only fails
to solve the crime, but also confronts insoluble mysteries of
interpretation and identity. As the contributors to Detecting Texts
contend, such stories belong to a distinct genre, the "metaphysical
detective story," in which the detective hero's inability to
interpret the mystery inevitably casts doubt on the reader's
similar attempt to make sense of the text and the world. Detecting
Texts includes an introduction by the editors that defines the
metaphysical detective story and traces its history from Poe's
classic tales to today's postmodernist experiments. In addition to
the editors, contributors include Stephen Bernstein, Joel Black,
John T. Irwin, Jeffrey T. Nealon, and others.
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