Detecting Texts The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism 1st Edition by Patricia Merivale, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney ISBN 0812205456 9780812205459

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ISBN 10: 0812205456

ISBN 13: 9780812205459 

Author: Patricia Merivale, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney

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.

Table of contents:

1. Mysteries We Reread, Mysteries of Rereading: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story

2. Borgesʹs Library of Forking Paths

3. (De)feats of Detection: The Spurious Key Text from Poe to Eco

4. Gumshoe Gothics: Poeʹs “The Man of the Crowd” and His Followers

5. Work of the Detective, Work of the Writer: Austerʹs City of Glass

6. “The Question Is the Story Itself”: Postmodernism and Intertextuality in Austerʹs New York Trilogy

7. Reader-Investigators in the Post-Nouveau Roman: Lahougue, Peeters, and Perec

8. “A Thousand Other Mysteries”: Metaphysical Detection, Ontological Quests

9. Postmodernism and the Monstrous Criminal: In Robbe-Grilletʹs Investigative Cell

10. Detecting Identity in Time and Space: Modianoʹs Rue des Boutiques Obscures and Tabucchiʹs Il Filo dellʹorizzonte

11. “Premeditated Crimes”: The Dis-Solution of Detective Fiction in Gombrowiczʹs Works

12. “Subject-Cases” and “Book-Cases”: Impostures and Forgeries from Poe to Auster

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