Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge

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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 conventions, offer a multiplicity of motifs – the overwhelming presence of chance, the unfulfilled quest for knowledge, the urban stroller lost in a labyrinthine text – that generate a vast array of epistemological and ontological uncertainties. Analysing the works of a wide variety of authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, and Henry James, this book is vital reading for scholars of detective fiction. 
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 conventions, offer a multiplicity of motifs – the overwhelming presence of chance, the unfulfilled quest for knowledge, the urban stroller lost in a labyrinthine text – that generate a vast array of epistemological and ontological uncertainties. Analysing the works of a wide variety of authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, and Henry James, this book is vital reading for scholars of detective fiction. 
Takes a new and innovative approach to address aspects of the mystery tale that have not been discussed previously
Ranges across the work of a wide variety of both canonical and lesser-known authors
Contributes to the burgeoning field of literary urban studies 
 

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Antoine Dechêne

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City Detective Edgar Allan Poe Flaneur Franz Kafka Henry James Herman Melville Iain Sinclair Jorge Luis Borges Mystery tale Nathaniel Hawthorne Paul Auster Roberto Bolaño Samuel Beckett Urban

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