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TRUTH TO POST-TRUTH IN AMERICAN DETECTIVE FICTION IBD

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
10 / 2021
9783030870737
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Sinopsis

Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fictionáexamines questions of truth and relativism, turning to detectives, both real and imagined, from PoeâÇÖs C. Auguste Dupin to Robert Mueller, to establish an oblique history of the path from a world where not believing in truth was unthinkable to the present, where it is common to believe that objective truth is a remnant of a simpler, more naûve time. Examining detective stories both literary and popular including hard-boiled, postmodern, and twenty-first century novels, the book establishes that examining detective fiction allows for a unique view of this progression to post-truth since the detectiveâÇÖs ultimate job is to take the reader from doubt to belief. David Riddle Watson shows that objectivityáisáintersubjectivity, arguing that the belief in multiple worlds is ultimately what sustains the illusion of relativism.

PVP
132,63