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We indulge our fascination with detection in many ways, only some
of which occur in the detective story. In fact, modern fiction
regularly uses elements of a detective narrative to tell another
story altogether, to engage characters, narrators, and readers with
questions of identity, with examinations of moral and ethical
reasoning, with critiques of social and political injustices, and
with the metaphysics of meaning itself. Detective plots cross
cultural and national boundaries and occur in different ways and
different genres. Taken together, they suggest important
contemporary understandings of who and what we are, how and what we
aspire to become.Detecting Detection gathers writing from the UK,
North and South America, Europe, and Asia to draw together
instances of the detective plot in contemporary fiction. It is
unique not only in addressing the theme--a recurring one in modern
literature--but in tracking the interest in detectives and
detection across international borders. >
We indulge our fascination with detection in many ways, only some
of which occur in the detective story. In fact, modern fiction
regularly uses elements of a detective narrative to tell another
story altogether, to engage characters, narrators, and readers with
questions of identity, with examinations of moral and ethical
reasoning, with critiques of social and political injustices, and
with the metaphysics of meaning itself. Detective plots cross
cultural and national boundaries and occur in different ways and
different genres. Taken together, they suggest important
contemporary understandings of who and what we are, how and what we
aspire to become.Detecting Detection gathers writing from the UK,
North and South America, Europe, and Asia to draw together
instances of the detective plot in contemporary fiction. It is
unique not only in addressing the theme--a recurring one in modern
literature--but in tracking the interest in detectives and
detection across international borders. >
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