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Wallace Stevens revisited : "the celestial possible"
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ISBN: 0805776443 Year: 1995 Volume: 617 Publisher: New York London [etc.] Twayne Publishers Prentice Hall International

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Opfergänge der vernunft : zur Konstruktion von metaphysischem Sinn in Texten der skandinavischen Literaturen vom Barock bis zu Postmoderne
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ISBN: 3525205899 9783525205891 Year: 2002 Volume: 316 Publisher: Göttingen Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Detecting texts : the metaphysical detective stoy from Poe to postmodernism
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ISBN: 0812216768 9786613212375 1283212374 0812205456 0812234693 9780812216769 9780812234695 Year: 1999 Publisher: Pennsylvania University Press,

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Although readers of detective fiction ordinarily expect to learn the mystery's solution at the end, there is another kind of detective story—the history of which encompasses writers as diverse as Poe, Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Auster, and Stephen King—that ends with a question rather than an answer. The detective not only fails to solve the crime, but also confronts insoluble mysteries of interpretation and identity. As the contributors to Detecting Texts contend, such stories belong to a distinct genre, the "metaphysical detective story," in which the detective hero's inability to interpret the mystery inevitably casts doubt on the reader's similar attempt to make sense of the text and the world.Detecting Texts includes an introduction by the editors that defines the metaphysical detective story and traces its history from Poe's classic tales to today's postmodernist experiments. In addition to the editors, contributors include Stephen Bernstein, Joel Black, John T. Irwin, Jeffrey T. Nealon, and others.

Borges and philosophy : self, time, and metaphysics.
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ISBN: 0820461024 Year: 2003 Volume: 16 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Lang

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