Detecting Texts

"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

Preface

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The Game's Afoot: On the Trail of the Metaphysical Detective Story

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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

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John T. Irwin

Borges's Library of Forking Paths

55

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Robert L. Chibka

(De)feats of Detection: The Spurious Key Text from Poe to Eco

75

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Joel Black

Hard-Boiling Metaphysics

Gumshoe Gothics: Poe's ``The man of the Crowd'' and His Followers

101

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Patricia Merivale

Work of the Detective, Work of the Writer: Auster's City of Glass

117

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Jeffrey T. Nealon

``The Question Is the Story Itself'': Postmodernism and Intertextuality in Auster's New York Trilogy

134

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Stephen Bernstein

Postmortem: Modern and Postmodern

Reader-Investigators in the Post-Nouveau Roman: Lahougue, Peeters, and Perec

157

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Michel Sirvent

``A Thousand Other Mysteries'': Metaphysical Detection, Ontological Quests

179

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Jeanne C. Ewert

Postmodernism and the Monstrous Criminal: In Robbe-Grillet's Investigative Cell

199

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Raylene Ramsay

Forging Identities

Detecting Identity in Time and Space: Modiano's Rue des Boutiques Obscures and Tabucchi's Il Filo dell'orizzonte

217

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Anna Botta

``Premeditated Crimes'': The Dis-Solution of Detective Fiction in Gombrowicz's Works

231

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Hanjo Berressem

``Subject-Cases'' and ``Book-Cases'': Impostures and Forgeries from Poe to Auster

247

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Susan Elizabeth Sweeney

In Place of an Ending

Suggestions for Further Reading

273

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Patricia Merivale

Susan Elizabeth Sweeney

Contributors

285

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Index

289

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