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9780812216769

Detecting Texts

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  • ISBN13:

    9780812216769

  • ISBN10:

    0812216768

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-12-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

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"Metaphysical detective stories reveal much about the relation of modernism to postmodernism and of high to low literary culture. Detecting Texts makes an excellent case for the coherence and breadth of the genre. Its broad scope, clear writing, an

Table of Contents

Preface ix
The Game's Afoot: On the Trail of the Metaphysical Detective Story 1(26)
Patricia Merivale
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Armchair Detecting, or the Corpus in the Library
Mysteries We Reread, Mysteries of Rereading: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story
27(28)
John T. Irwin
Borges's Library of Forking Paths
55(20)
Robert L. Chibka
(De)feats of Detection: The Spurious Key Text from Poe to Eco
75(26)
Joel Black
Hard-Boiling Metaphysics
Gumshoe Gothics: Poe's ``The man of the Crowd'' and His Followers
101(16)
Patricia Merivale
Work of the Detective, Work of the Writer: Auster's City of Glass
117(17)
Jeffrey T. Nealon
``The Question Is the Story Itself'': Postmodernism and Intertextuality in Auster's New York Trilogy
134(23)
Stephen Bernstein
Postmortem: Modern and Postmodern
Reader-Investigators in the Post-Nouveau Roman: Lahougue, Peeters, and Perec
157(22)
Michel Sirvent
``A Thousand Other Mysteries'': Metaphysical Detection, Ontological Quests
179(20)
Jeanne C. Ewert
Postmodernism and the Monstrous Criminal: In Robbe-Grillet's Investigative Cell
199(18)
Raylene Ramsay
Forging Identities
Detecting Identity in Time and Space: Modiano's Rue des Boutiques Obscures and Tabucchi's Il Filo dell'orizzonte
217(14)
Anna Botta
``Premeditated Crimes'': The Dis-Solution of Detective Fiction in Gombrowicz's Works
231(16)
Hanjo Berressem
``Subject-Cases'' and ``Book-Cases'': Impostures and Forgeries from Poe to Auster
247(26)
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
In Place of an Ending
Suggestions for Further Reading
273(12)
Patricia Merivale
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Contributors 285(4)
Index 289

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