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DETECTIVE FICTION AND THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE ...

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.

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