| Description |
x, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-283) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism.
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Experimental fiction -- History and criticism.
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Metaphysics in literature.
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Fiction -- Technique.
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| Added Author |
Merivale, Patricia.
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Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth, 1958-
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| ISBN |
0812234693 cloth alkaline paper |
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0812216768 paperback alkaline paper |
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