Ashman, Nathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-6253
(2017)
The impotence of human reason: E.C. Bentley's Trent's Last Case and the anti-detective text.
Clues, 35 (2).
pp. 7-17.
ISSN 1940-3046
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Abstract
This article considers the subversion of the analytical detective format in E. C. Bentley’s Trent’s Last Case (1913). Exploring the text’s problematization of concepts such as logic and reason as well as its disruption of the detective’s ocularcentric interpretative framework, the author highlights the ways in which Trent’s Last Case unsettles delineations between the classic analytic detective story and the metaphysical or antidetective text.
Item Type: | Article |
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Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing |
UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Creative Writing Research Group Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group |
Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 16 Oct 2018 14:30 |
Last Modified: | 04 Mar 2024 17:44 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/68551 |
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