Approaching the Threshold(s) in Postmodern Detective Fiction: Hawthorne's "Wakefield" and Other Missing Persons

Ever since Michael Holquist suggested that what the "presuppositions of myth and depth psychology were to Modernism ... the detective story is to Post-Modernism" (133, critics have recognized the "metaphysical detective," or "anti-detective," as a significant figure in...

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Published inCritique - Bolingbroke Society Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 207 - 227
Main Author Swope, Richard
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Minneapolis, Minn Taylor & Francis Group 1998
Bolingbroke Society
Taylor & Francis Inc
Subjects
Fiction
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
Literary criticism
Novels
Postmodernism
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Summary:Ever since Michael Holquist suggested that what the "presuppositions of myth and depth psychology were to Modernism ... the detective story is to Post-Modernism" (133, critics have recognized the "metaphysical detective," or "anti-detective," as a significant figure in postmodern fiction. What is the metaphysical detective, and what is the importance of that figure to postmodernism?
ISSN:0011-1619
1939-9138
DOI:10.1080/00111619809599531