Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction

ISBN-13: 9783030870737 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 238 str.

David Riddle Watson

Spis treści

1. Introduction: From Clear Speaking to Misunderstanding

2. Closed Worlds and Cold Detectives

3. Cold Wars and Porous Borders

4. The Bleak and the Dread: From Existential Angst to Postmodern Paranioa

5. The Flat-Earth Society: Tracing Networks in the Contemporary World

6. Living in Two Separate Worlds: The Feral Detective, The City and The City, and the Problem of Relativism

7. The United States of V, White, and Q

O autorze

David Riddle Watson is English and Humanities Instructor at Central Carolina Community College in Sanford, NC, USA, where he has taught since 2005. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2019. His research examines the intersection of philosophy, rhetoric, and contemporary American literature.