Thrill or Angst? Metaphysical Implications of Rewriting the Detective Plot in Joyce Carol Oates's "The Falls"

Tanya Tromble (1)

1 LERMA - Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone

A growing number of Joyce Carol Oates's novels are a peculiar sort of "whydunit." In Oates's The Falls (2004), her detectives occupy a middle ground between the Golden Age detective and the hard-boiled hero - one example of the metaphysical detective story in her fiction that resists even this wide-ranging designation.

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences

Tanya Tromble. Thrill or Angst? Metaphysical Implications of Rewriting the Detective Plot in Joyce Carol Oates's "The Falls". Clues: A Journal of Detection, 2017. ⟨hal-03197217⟩