{"product_id":"detecting-texts-the-metaphysical-detective-story-from-poe-to-postmodernism-paperback-softback-9780812216769","title":"Detecting Texts; The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812216769","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDetecting Texts\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatricia Merivale (Edited by), Susan Elizabeth Sweeney (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812216769\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 December 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Metaphysical detective stories reveal much about the relation of modernism to postmodernism and of high to low literary culture. \u003ci\u003eDetecting Texts\u003c\/i\u003e makes an excellent case for the coherence and breadth of the genre. Its broad scope, clear writing, and notable contributions to a number of literary subfields are among its many virtues.\"-Shawn Rosenheim, Williams College\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"No currently available anthology addresses the topic of the metaphysical detective story so directly, so fully, or so relevantly.\"-Brian McHale, West Virginia University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough readers of detective fiction ordinarily expect to learn the mystery's solution at the end, there is another kind of detective story-the history of which encompasses writers as diverse as Poe, Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Auster, and Stephen King-that ends with a question rather than an answer. The detective not only fails to solve the crime, but also confronts insoluble mysteries of interpretation and identity. As the contributors to \u003ci\u003eDetecting Texts\u003c\/i\u003e contend, such stories belong to a distinct genre, the \"metaphysical detective story,\" in which the detective hero's inability to interpret the mystery inevitably casts doubt on the reader's similar attempt to make sense of the text and the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDetecting Texts\u003c\/i\u003e includes an introduction by the editors that defines the metaphysical detective story and traces its history from Poe's classic tales to today's postmodernist experiments. In addition to the editors, contributors include Stephen Bernstein, Joel Black, John T. Irwin, Jeffrey T. Nealon, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523092050200,"sku":"9780812216769","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/detecting-texts-the-metaphysical-detective-story-from-poe-to-postmodernism-paperback-softback-9780812216769","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}