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Detecting texts : the metaphysical detective story from Poe to postmodernism
- Title
- Detecting texts : the metaphysical detective story from Poe to postmodernism / edited by Patricia Merivale and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennysylvania Press, c1999.
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- Description
- x, 305 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
- Call Number
- JFE 99-4234
- ISBN
- 0812234693 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0812216768 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98027815
- OCLC
- 39659682
- Title
- Detecting texts : the metaphysical detective story from Poe to postmodernism / edited by Patricia Merivale and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney.
- Imprint
- Philadelphia : University of Pennysylvania Press, c1999.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-283) and index.
- Added Author
- Merivale, Patricia.Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth, 1958-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 99-4234