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The Mysteries of Modern Life

Mystery Fiction, Popular Narrative, and the Politics of Vision

Sara (San Francisco State University) Hackenberg

The Mysteries of Modern Life

The Mysteries of Modern Life

Mystery Fiction, Popular Narrative, and the Politics of Vision

The Mysteries of Modern Life

 

This book offers an innovative new theory of mystery fiction that counters the standard critical view of its inherent conservatism. It argues that the modern mystery's radical exploration of the difficulties of reading the world teaches readers to distrust immediate perceptions and to scrutinize the assumptions through which we see.


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Beschrijving The Mysteries of Modern Life

This book offers an innovative new theory of mystery fiction that counters the standard critical view of its inherent conservatism. It argues that the modern mystery's radical exploration of the difficulties of reading the world teaches readers to distrust immediate perceptions and to scrutinize the assumptions through which we see.


ISBN
9781009604796
Pagina's
295
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Rubriek
Populaire fictie
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Cambridge University Press

Populaire fictie