Origin, Identity, in Search of the Human in Contemporary Post-Cataclysmic Fiction
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2012.
Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : Detective novels are usually anchored in the second half of the nineteenth century with Edgar Allan Poe, Émile Gaboriau and Arthur Conan Doyle. The genre emerged as a mode of compensation to the epistemological and ontological crisis triggered by new modes of representation of mankind’s origin and identity. The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a new crisis of representation illustrated in the arts by postmodernism. This study aims at deciphering a generic, epistemological and symbolic heritage in contemporary English literature staging a post-cataclysmic and/or post-human world.
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Detective novels are usually anchored in the second half of the nineteenth century with Edgar Allan Poe, Émile Gaboriau and Arthur Conan Doyle. The genre emerged as a mode of compensation to the epistemological and ontological crisis triggered by new modes of representation of mankind’s origin and identity. The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a new crisis of representation illustrated in the arts by postmodernism. This study aims at deciphering a generic, epistemological and symbolic heritage in contemporary English literature staging a post-cataclysmic and/or post-human world.
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