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Chapter 3. (De)feats of Detection
The Spurious Key Text from Poe to Eco
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- The Games Afoot 1
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Armchair Detecting, or the Corpus in the Library
- Chapter 1. Mysteries We Reread, Mysteries of Rereading 27
- Chapter 2. Borgess Library of Forking Paths 55
- Chapter 3. (De)feats of Detection 75
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Hard-Boiling Metaphysics
- Chapter 4. Gumshoe Gothics 101
- Chapter 5. Work of the Detective, Work of the Writer 117
- Chapter 6. “The Question Is the Story Itself” 134
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Postmortem: Modern and Postmodern
- Chapter 7. Reader-Investigators in the Post-Nouveau Roman 157
- Chapter 8. “A Thousand Other Mysteries” 179
- Chapter 9. Postmodernism and the Monstrous Criminal 199
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Forging Identities
- Chapter 10. Detecting Identity in Time and Space 217
- Chapter 11. ”Premeditated Crimes” 231
- Chapter 12. “Subject-Cases” and “Book-Cases” 247
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In Place of an Ending
- Suggestions for Further Reading 273
- Contributors 285
- Index 289
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- The Games Afoot 1
-
Armchair Detecting, or the Corpus in the Library
- Chapter 1. Mysteries We Reread, Mysteries of Rereading 27
- Chapter 2. Borgess Library of Forking Paths 55
- Chapter 3. (De)feats of Detection 75
-
Hard-Boiling Metaphysics
- Chapter 4. Gumshoe Gothics 101
- Chapter 5. Work of the Detective, Work of the Writer 117
- Chapter 6. “The Question Is the Story Itself” 134
-
Postmortem: Modern and Postmodern
- Chapter 7. Reader-Investigators in the Post-Nouveau Roman 157
- Chapter 8. “A Thousand Other Mysteries” 179
- Chapter 9. Postmodernism and the Monstrous Criminal 199
-
Forging Identities
- Chapter 10. Detecting Identity in Time and Space 217
- Chapter 11. ”Premeditated Crimes” 231
- Chapter 12. “Subject-Cases” and “Book-Cases” 247
-
In Place of an Ending
- Suggestions for Further Reading 273
- Contributors 285
- Index 289