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This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dech?ne 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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge
• Subtitle: Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale
• Author: Antoine Dech?ne
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 347
• EAN: 9783319944685
• ISBN: 3319944681
• ID: 19546500
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
• Weight: 596 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 148 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. September 2018

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