04127nam 2200721 a 450 991078188450332120230422050700.01-283-21237-497866132123750-8122-0545-610.9783/9780812205459(CKB)2550000000051279(EBL)3441555(SSID)ssj0000535801(PQKBManifestationID)11371178(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535801(PQKBWorkID)10545955(PQKB)11252208(MiAaPQ)EBC3441555(OCoLC)758823533(MdBmJHUP)muse8321(DE-B1597)449270(OCoLC)979748548(DE-B1597)9780812205459(Au-PeEL)EBL3441555(CaPaEBR)ebr10492012(CaONFJC)MIL321237(OCoLC)748533467(EXLCZ)99255000000005127919980729d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDetecting texts[electronic resource] the metaphysical detective story from Poe to postmodernism /edited by Patricia Merivale and Susan Elizabeth SweeneyPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc19991 online resource (320 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8122-1676-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-283) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- The Games Afoot -- Chapter 1. Mysteries We Reread, Mysteries of Rereading -- Chapter 2. Borgess Library of Forking Paths -- Chapter 3. (De)feats of Detection -- Chapter 4. Gumshoe Gothics -- Chapter 5. Work of the Detective, Work of the Writer -- Chapter 6. “The Question Is the Story Itself” -- Chapter 7. Reader-Investigators in the Post-Nouveau Roman -- Chapter 8. “A Thousand Other Mysteries” -- Chapter 9. Postmodernism and the Monstrous Criminal -- Chapter 10. Detecting Identity in Time and Space -- Chapter 11. ”Premeditated Crimes” -- Chapter 12. “Subject-Cases” and “Book-Cases” -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index 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.Detective and mystery storiesHistory and criticismExperimental fictionHistory and criticismFiction20th centuryHistory and criticismMetaphysics in literatureFictionTechniqueDetective and mystery storiesHistory and criticism.Experimental fictionHistory and criticism.FictionHistory and criticism.Metaphysics in literature.FictionTechnique.809.3/872/0904Merivale Patricia206234Sweeney Susan Elizabeth1958-1575544MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781884503321Detecting texts3852581UNINA