[PDF.06zu] Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism

Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism

[PDF.mi36] Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism

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 | #579948 in Books |  University of Pennsylvania Press |  1998-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.71 x5.98l,1.11 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Damned Good description of the analytic detective genre and its critics by authors well respected in the field.|By Little Johnny W|This is an excellent index of critical authorities and brief descriptions of their positions. The authors are concise and the material well summarized.|9 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| excellent resourc| ||"Metaphysical detective stories reveal much about the relation of modernism to postmodernism and of high to low literary culture. Detecting Texts makes an excellent case for the coherence and breadth of the genre. Its broad scope, clear writing, and no

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<...

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