TY  - BOOK
AU  - Machinal,Hélène
TI  - Origin, Identity, in Search of the Human in Contemporary Post-Cataclysmic Fiction
PY  - 2012///.
							
N1  - 50
N2  - 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
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-etudes-anglaises-2011-4-page-465?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -