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Detective Fiction on the Case of Community The Mystery at the Heart of the Modern

174 Pages

by Routledge

174 Pages

by Routledge

174 Pages

by Routledge

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Detective Fiction on the Case of Community uses one of the most popular forms of modern literature to examine one of modernity’s most trenchant problems. The project rests on the argument that detective fiction emerges specifically from an awareness of the stress that modernization puts on the possibilities of communal life, as industrialization and urbanism accelerate the alienation and... Read more

1. Introduction: The Mystery of the Vanishing Community

2. Investigations Begin: The Mystery and Promise of Analysis

Dupin and a Reimagining of the World

Sherlock Holmes, the Aesthetics of Mystery, and the Relations of Investigation

Conclusion: Fairy Tales of the Modern

3. Investigations Below: Latin American Detection and the Ecosophical Turn

Detective Fiction in the Latin American Literary Field

Borges Rewriting Poe

Borges’ Literary Event and the Boom

Piglia and Detection as Ecosophical

Conclusion: Detection and the Politics of the Possible

4. Investigations Together: Pynchon’s Detectives of Incommensurable Mystery