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Cookie akzeptierenDavid Riddle Watson
Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction
- Springer International Publishing
- 2021
- Gebunden
- 236 Seiten
- ISBN 9783030870737
Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction examines questions of truth and relativism, turning to detectives, both real and imagined, from Poe¿s C. Auguste Dupin to Robert Mueller, to establish an oblique history of the path from a world where not believing in truth was unthinkable to the present, where it is common to believe that objective truth is a remnant of a simpler, more naïve time. Examining detective stories both literary and popular including hard-boiled, postmodern, and twenty-first century novels, the book establishes that examining detective fiction allows for a unique view of this progression to post-truth since the detective¿s ultimate job is to take
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