Detective fiction and the problem of knowledge : perspectives on the metacognitive mystery tale /: perspectives on the metacognitive mystery tale. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Antoine Dechêne.
• Authors: Dechêne, Antoine
• Contents: I. The Problem of Knowledge.- 1.From the Metaphysical Detective Story to the Metacognitive Mystery Tale.- 2.Enigmas of the Sublime and the Grotesque.- II.From the flâneur to the Stalker.- 3.Edgar Allan Poe's "The Man of the Crowd".- 4.Jorge Luis Borges's Textual Labyrinths.- 5.Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy.- IIIThe Grotesque.- 6.Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street".- 7.Samuel Beckett's Molloy.- 8.Roberto Bolaño's Monsieur Pain.-IV. The Sublime.-9. Henry James's "The Figure in the Carpet".-10. Horacio Quiroga's "The Pursued".-V. In Lieu of a Conclusion: Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Wakefield".
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 809.3872; Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319944692
• Related ISBNs: 9783319944685
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