ways-of-seeking.pdf

In Ways of Seeking, Emily Drumsta traces the influence of detective fiction on the twentieth-century Arabic novel. Theorizing a “poetics of investigation,” she shows how these novels, far from staging awe-inspiring feats of logical deduction, mock the truth-seeking practices on which modern exercise...

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Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2024
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.178