Devin Fromm

Detective Fiction on the Case of Community (eBook, ePUB)

The Mystery at the Heart of the Modern

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It examines 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 atomization we recognize as modern conditions

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040144534
• Artikelnr.: 72274458

Autorenporträt

Devin Fromm is Resident Assistant Professor at Occidental College

Inhaltsangabe

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
Immunization in The Crying of Lot 49
Vineland and the Belated Moment of Welcome to Planet Earth
Corrupt Pilgrims of Incommensurable Mystery
Conclusion: Being Nihilistic Together
5. Epilogue: Detecting the Genre in Action
Index