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Detecting Texts – The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism
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Item specifics
- Condition
- BIC Subject Area 1
- Miscellaneous items [WZ]
- ISBN
- 9780812216769
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Detecting Texts: the Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Topic
- Literature
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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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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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-13
9780812216769
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Detecting Texts: the Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
1998
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
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United States
Editor
Patricia Merivale, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
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