Detecting Texts
Subtitle: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism
Contributors: Patricia Merivale (Editor); Susan Elizabeth Sweeney (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780812216769
Subjects: Cultural studies; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; History and criticism; Experimental fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; Mystery & Detective Fiction; Literary Criticism & Collections / Mystery & Detective Fiction; Detective and mystery stories; General; 20th century; Fiction
First sentence: Let me start with a simple-minded question: How does one write analytic detective fiction as high art when the genre's basic structure, its central narrative mechanism, seems to discourage the unlimited rereading associated with serious writing?