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Aktuelle Bücher Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction

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.

Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction

Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction

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 naïve time.

  • Watson, David Riddle
  • 2022-10-27