This dissertation aims at establishing the genealogy of a literary genre called the metacognitive mystery tale. Its main goal is to delineate a corpus of texts presenting "unreadable" mysteries which, under the deceptively monolithic appearance of subverting "traditional" detective story conventions, offer a multiplicity of motifs – the overwhelming presence of chance, the unfulfilled quest for knowledge, the urban stroller lost in a labyrinthine text – that generate a vast array of epistemological and ontological uncertainties explored by the genre. The selected corpus, composed of some of the genre's most emblematic avatars as well as of less usual suspects, accounts for the specificity and heterogeneity of authors who, in different but related ways, have addressed a certain number of issues underlying the acquisition of knowledge. Following three major intertextual matrices based on the concepts of the "unreadable" city, the "dark" grotesque and the sublime, respectively, this project brings together texts by writers as diverse as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry James, Horacio Quiroga, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Paul Auster, Iain Sinclair and Roberto Bolaño under the banner of the metacognitive mystery tale. This approach represents an opportunity to gather canonical and barely academically studied works and provide new perspectives on stories dealing with the darker, more anxious aspects of investigations led by defective sleuths.
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机译:本文旨在建立一种被称为元认知神秘故事的文学体裁。它的主要目的是描述呈现“难以理解的”奥秘的文本语料库,在颠覆“传统”侦探故事惯例的欺骗性整体外观下,提供了多种主题–机会的压倒性存在,对知识的无尽追求,在迷宫般的文字中迷失了城市婴儿车–产生了大量由该类型探索的认识论和本体论不确定性。所选语料库由该类型中最具象征意义的化身以及不太常见的嫌疑人组成,这些因素说明了作者的特殊性和异质性,他们以不同但相关的方式解决了知识获取背后的某些问题。在分别基于“不可读的”城市,“黑暗”的怪诞和崇高的概念的三个主要互文矩阵之后,该项目汇集了Percy Bysshe Shelley,Edgar Allan Poe,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Herman Melville等不同作家的著作,亨利·詹姆斯(Henry James),霍拉西奥·基洛加(Horacio Quiroga),豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯(Jorge Luis Borges),弗朗兹·卡夫卡(Samuel Beckett),保罗·奥斯特(Paul Auster),伊恩·辛克莱(Iain Sinclair)和罗伯托·波拉尼奥(RobertoBolaño),都以元认知的神秘故事为旗帜。这种方法提供了一个机会,可以收集规范的和几乎没有经过学术研究的作品,并为有关故事的新观点提供新的观点,这些故事涉及由侦探缺陷导致的更黑暗,更焦虑的调查。
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