Knowing the unknowable: detecting metaphysics and religion in crime fiction

Kim Toft Hansen

Knowing the unknowable: detecting metaphysics and religion in crime fiction

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Abstract

This essay draws attention to the backside of crime fiction and narratives of detection. While several scholars in various ways highlight a present cultural transformation towards revitalization of metaphysics and religion in so-called post-secular conditions this essay shows that this is in itself nothing new. The history of crime fiction and stories about investigating crime – in this case up until 2nd World War – are fleetingly pierced by an undercurrent of irrationality and an interest vested in metaphysics, religion and the supernatural.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Detecting Detection : International Perspectives on the Uses of a Plot
Redaktører	Peter Baker, Deborah Shaller
Forlag	Bloomsbury Academic
Publikationsdato	28 aug. 2012
Udgave	1
Sider	139-168
Kapitel	8
ISBN (Trykt)	9781441100788
Status	Udgivet - 28 aug. 2012

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Krimi
metafysik
religion
overnaturlighed

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Detecting Detection: International Perspectives on the Uses of a Plot. red. / Peter Baker; Deborah Shaller. 1. udg. Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. s. 139-168.

Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport/konference proceeding › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › peer review

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Knowing the unknowable: detecting metaphysics and religion in crime fiction

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