Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030870737)

Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction examines questions of truth and relativism, turning to detectives, both real and imagined, from Poe's 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 na?e 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 detective's ultimate job is to take the reader from doubt to belief. David Riddle Watson shows that objectivity is intersubjectivity, arguing that the belief in multiple worlds is ultimately what sustains the illusion of relativism.

Author: David Riddle Watson
ISBN-10: 3030870731
ISBN-13: 9783030870737
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/26/2021
Pages: 218
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d