I put together this list on postmodern detective fiction together for a student and thought others might find it of interest. David Woody Geoffrey Peter Postmodern Detective Fiction Reading Primary Peter Ackroyd. Hawksmoor. Paul Auster. City of Glass. Roberto Bolano. The Savage Detectives. Jorge Luis Borges. Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, The Circular Ruins, The Babylon Lottery, An Examination of the Works of Herbert Quain, The Library of Babel, The Garden of Forking Paths, Funes, The Memorious, Death and the Compass. Italo Calvino. If on a winter’s night a traveler. Friedrich Dürrenmatt. The Pledge. Umberto Eco. The Name of the Rose. Chester Himes. Blind Man With a Pistol. Julia Kristeva. Murder In Byzantium: A Novel. Columbia UP. 2006. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Georges Perec. A Void. Thomas Pynchon. The Crying of Lot 49. Alain Robbe-Grillet.The Erasers. Gertude Stein. Blood on the Dining Room Floor. Paco Ignacio Taibo and Subcomandante Marcos. The Uncomfortable Dead. Secondary Marvin Carlson. The Postmodern Comedy Thriller. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993. Colin Davis. “Psychoanalysis, Detection and Fiction: Julia Kristeva’s Detective Novels.” Sites: the Journal of Twentieth Century Contemporary French Studies. 6.2 (Fall 2002): 294-306. Oscar De Los Santos. “Auster vs. Chandler: Or, Cracking the Case of the Postmodern Mystery.” Connecticut Review, 16.1 (Spr. 1994): 75-80. Brian Diemert. “The Waterworks: E.L. Doctorow’s Gnostic Detective Story.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 45.4 (Win. 2003): 352-374. Jeanne C. Ewert. “Lost in the Hermeneutic Funhouse: Patrick Modiano’s Postmodern Detective.” in The Cunning Craft: Original Essays on Detective Fiction and Contemporary Literary Theory. Ronald G. Walker and June M. Frazer (eds). Macomb, IL: Western Illinois UP, 1990. 166-173. Daniel Grassian. “The Half-Baked Cultural Detective: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as Postmodern Noir.” Popular Culture Review 11.2 (Sum. 2000): 99-111. Peter Huhn. The Detective as Reader: Narrativity and Reading Concepts in Detective Fiction. Modern Fiction Studies 33.3 (Aut 1987): 451-466. Brent MacLaine. “Sleuths in the Darkroom: Photographer-Detectives and Postmodern Narrative.” Journal of Popular Culture. 33.3 (Win. 1999): 79-94. Carl D. Malmgren. “Detecting/Writing the Real: Paul Auster’s City of Glass.” in Narrative Turns and Minor Genres in Postmodernism. Theo D’haen and Hans Bertens (eds). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995. 177-201. Heather Mawhinney. “’Vol du Bourbon’: The Purloined Letter in Perec’s La Disparition.” Modern Language Review. 97.1 (Jan. 2002): 47-58. Patricia Merivale and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney (eds). Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism. U of Pennsylvania P, 1999. Emir Rodriguez Monegal and Alastair Reid (eds). Borges: A Reader. NY: Duton , 1981 (contains “On the origins of the detective novel’ and ‘modes of gk chesterton’) Josiane Peltier. “Didier Daeninckx and Michel de Certeau: A Historiography of Affects.” in Crime Scenes: Detective Narratives in European Culture since 1945. Anne Mullen and Emer O’Beirne (eds). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000. 269-280. Lawrence Rich. “Antonio Munoz Molina’s Beatus ille and Beltenebros: Conventions of Reading the Postmodern Anti-Detective Novel.” RLA: Romance languages Annual, 6 (1994): 577-580. Mireille Rosello. ‘The Screener’s Maps: Michel de Certeau’s “Wandersmänner” and paul Auster’s Hypertextual Detective.” Hyper/Text/Theory. Ed. George P. Landow. Johns Hopkins, UP, 1994: 121-158. Claudia Schaefer-Rodriguez. “On the Waterfront: Realism Meets the Postmodern in Post-Franco Spain’s novela negra.” Hispanic Journal. 11.1 (Spr. 1990): 133-146. Michel Sirvent. “Reader-Investigators in the Post-Nouveau Roman: Lahougue, Peeters, and Perec.” Romanic Review. 88.2 (Mar. 1997) 315-335. William V. Spanos. “The Detective and the Boundary: Some Notes on the Postmodern Literary Imagination.” Boundary 2, 1.1 (Fall 1972): 147-168. Gertrude Stein. “American Crimes and How They Matter.” in How Writing is Written. Ed. Robert Bartlett Haas, 100-105. LA: Black Sparrow, 1974. Richard Swope. “Approaching the Threshold(s) in Postmodern Detective Fiction: Hawthorne’s ‘Wakefield’ and Other Missing Persons.” Critique. 39.3 (Spr. 1998): 207-227. Stefano Tani. The Doomed Detective: The Contribution of the Detective Novel to Postmodern American and Italian Fiction. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1984. Mark Whalan. “The Literary Detective in Postmodernity.” Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres. 4.9 (1998): 119-133. Werner Wunderlich. “Monastic Thrillers: Detecting Postmodernity in the Middle Ages.” Comparative Literature Studies. 32.3 (1995) 382-400. Slavoj Zizek. “Two Ways to Avoid the Real of Desire.” in Contemporary Literary Criticism: Literary and Cultural Studies. Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schleifer (eds). NY: Longman, 1998. 431-439.
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