LEADER 04127nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910781884503321 005 20230422050700.0 010 $a1-283-21237-4 010 $a9786613212375 010 $a0-8122-0545-6 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205459 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051279 035 $a(EBL)3441555 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535801 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11371178 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535801 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10545955 035 $a(PQKB)11252208 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441555 035 $a(OCoLC)758823533 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8321 035 $a(DE-B1597)449270 035 $a(OCoLC)979748548 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205459 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441555 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10492012 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321237 035 $a(OCoLC)748533467 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051279 100 $a19980729d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aDetecting texts$b[electronic resource] $ethe metaphysical detective story from Poe to postmodernism /$fedited by Patricia Merivale and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-1676-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-283) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tThe Games Afoot -- $tChapter 1. Mysteries We Reread, Mysteries of Rereading -- $tChapter 2. Borgess Library of Forking Paths -- $tChapter 3. (De)feats of Detection -- $tChapter 4. Gumshoe Gothics -- $tChapter 5. Work of the Detective, Work of the Writer -- $tChapter 6. ?The Question Is the Story Itself? -- $tChapter 7. Reader-Investigators in the Post-Nouveau Roman -- $tChapter 8. ?A Thousand Other Mysteries? -- $tChapter 9. Postmodernism and the Monstrous Criminal -- $tChapter 10. Detecting Identity in Time and Space -- $tChapter 11. ?Premeditated Crimes? -- $tChapter 12. ?Subject-Cases? and ?Book-Cases? -- $tSuggestions for Further Reading -- $tContributors -- $tIndex 330 $aAlthough 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. 606 $aDetective and mystery stories$xHistory and criticism 606 $aExperimental fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMetaphysics in literature 606 $aFiction$xTechnique 615 0$aDetective and mystery stories$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aExperimental fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMetaphysics in literature. 615 0$aFiction$xTechnique. 676 $a809.3/872/0904 701 $aMerivale$b Patricia$0206234 701 $aSweeney$b Susan Elizabeth$f1958-$01575544 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781884503321 996 $aDetecting texts$93852581 997 $aUNINA