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Detecting texts : the metaphysical detective story from Poe to postmodernism /

"No currently available anthology addresses the topic of the metaphysical detective story so directly, so fully, or so relevantly."--Brian McHale, West Virginia University

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Merivale, Patricia (Editor ), Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth, 1958- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1999]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The game's afoot: on the trail of the metaphysical detective story / Patricia Merivale and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
  • Mysteries we reread, mysteries of rereading: Poe, Borges, and the analytic detective story / John T. Irwin
  • Borges's library of forking paths / Robert L. Chibka
  • (De)feats of detection: the spurious key text from Poe to Eco / Joe Black
  • Gumshoe gothics: Poe's "The man of the crowd" and his followers / Patricia Merivale
  • Work of the detective, work of the writer: Auster's City of glass / Jeffery T. Nealon
  • "The question is the story itself": postmodernism and intertextuality in Auster's New York trilogy / Stephen Bernstein
  • Reader-investigators in the post-nouveau roman: Lahougue, Peeters, and Perec / Michel Sirvent
  • "A thousand other mysteries": metaphysical detection, ontological quests / Jeanne C. Ewert
  • Postmodernism and the monstrous criminal: in Robbe-Gillet's investigative cell / Raylene Ramsay
  • Detecting identity in time and space: Modiano's Rue des boutiques obscures and Tabucchi's Il filo dell'orizzonte / Anna Botta
  • "Premeditated crimes": the dis-solution of detective fiction in Gombrowicz's works / Hanjo Berressem
  • "Subject-cases" and "book-cases": impostures and forgeries from Poe to Auster.