Observing, Guessing, Drifting: Para-Noetic Methods in Detective Fiction

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  • Stefan Willer Berlin Center for Literary and Cultural Research

Abstract

"detective fiction makes manifest a paradoxical relation between logic and the actual art of resolving problems: the detective figures as a key agent both inside and outside the framework of rational thought. In so doing, detective fiction opens up towards a problem-solving strategy that could be termed para-noetic."

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Published

2014-03-15

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