UID:
edocfu_9959228657702883
Format:
1 online resource (201 p.)
ISBN:
1-4411-6834-6
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1-282-13343-8
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9786613806017
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1-4411-2812-3
Content:
We indulge our fascination with detection in many ways, only some of which occur in the detective story. In fact, modern fiction regularly uses elements of a detective narrative to tell another story altogether, to engage characters, narrators, and readers with questions of identity, with examinations of moral and ethical reasoning, with critiques of social and political injustices, and with the metaphysics of meaning itself. Detective plots cross cultural and national boundaries and occur in different ways and different genres. Taken together, they suggest important contemporary understanding
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contributors; Editors' introduction; 1 The detection plot as a means of testimony in Ann-Marie MacDonald's The Way the Crow Flies; 2 Is The Savage Detectives a detective story?; 3 Detectivism as a means of resistance in Juan Marsé's El embrujo de Shanghai; 4 Two men walk into a bar; 5 Espionage and the war on secrecy and terror in Graham Greene and beyond; 6 The stories we all tell: the function of language and knowledge in Julia Kristeva's novel Possessions; 7 Zen Keytsch: mystery handymen with dragon tattoos; 8 Knowing the unknowable: detecting metaphysics and religion in crime fiction
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9 African initiation narratives and the modern detective novelIndex
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4411-0078-4
Language:
English
