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Detective Fiction on the Case of Community - Devin Fromm

Detective Fiction on the Case of Community

The Mystery at the Heart of the Modern

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Buch | Hardcover
166 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-61847-0 (ISBN)
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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
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 atomization we recognize as modern conditions. Here the detective appears as an image of thinking still able to perceive the threads that link such alienated people together, and therefore able to imagine solutions along the lines of these obscured connections. Reading the genre’s journey, from its origins in Poe to its most unorthodox form in Pynchon, allows fresh perspectives on the possibilities and limits of modern community, from its endurance as part of modernization to its meaning today as a sticking point in theoretical debate and political activism.

Devin Fromm is Resident Assistant Professor at Occidental College

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 480 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-032-61847-7 / 1032618477
ISBN-13 978-1-032-61847-0 / 9781032618470
Zustand Neuware
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