Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale /

• Main Author: Dechêne, Antoine (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Crime Files
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; America-Literatures.; British literature.; European literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; North American Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; European Literature.

This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dechêne 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 conv...

Table of 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
• III The 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". .