Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Wakefield”

Abstract

Intro; Preface; Contents; Part I: The Problem of Knowledge; Chapter 1: Introduction; Works Cited; Chapter 2: From theMetaphysical Detective Story totheMetacognitive Mystery Tale; The Mystery Story andtheOrigins ofDetective Fiction; "Classical" Detective Fiction; The Metaphysical Detective Story; The Epistemological andOntological Models; The flâneur; The Metacognitive Mystery Tale; Works Cited; Chapter 3: Enigmas oftheSublime andtheGrotesque; The Sublime; Burke: Terror andDelight; "Absolutely Great": Kant; Lyotard andthe"Unpresentable"; The Urban Sublime; The Grotesque Kayser andtheDark GrotesqueBakhtin: "The Eternal Incomplete Unfinished Nature ofBeing"; Kristeva andAbjection; Works Cited; Part II: From the flâneur to the Stalker; Chapter 4: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Man oftheCrowd"; "Unreadable" Cities; "The Man oftheCrowd"; Works Cited; Chapter 5: Jorge Luis Borges's Textual Labyrinths; "The Garden ofForking Paths"; "Death andtheCompass"; "Ibn Hakam al-Bokhari, Dead inHis Labyrinth"; Works Cited; Chapter 6: Paul Auster's The NewYork Trilogy; Timespace inThe NewYork Trilogy; City ofGlass; Ghosts; The Locked Room; Perfect Non-Solutions Works CitedPart III: The Grotesque; Chapter 7: Herman Melville's "Bartleby, theScrivener: AStory ofWall Street"; Bartleby's Dead Body; Bartleby's Language; Works Cited; Chapter 8: Samuel Beckett's Molloy; Loops andAbjection: When Nothingness Happens; Disintegrated Bodies andIdentities; Double Detectives; Moran's Metamorphosis; The Language ofIgnorance; Works Cited; Chapter 9: Roberto Bolaño's Monsieur Pain; Where Is theBeginning?; Hiccups andMesmerism; A Lonely Spectatorship; Works Cited; Part IV: The Sublime; Chapter 10: Henry James's "The Figure intheCarpet." The Perversion ofKnowledge andKnowledge asPerversionThe Threads intheCarpet; An "Esoteric Message"; "Give It up- Give It up!"; Works Cited; Chapter 11: Horacio Quiroga's "The Pursued"; Living Among theDead: Quiroga; Following "The Man oftheCrowd"; Lucid Madness; Works Cited; Part V: In Lieu of a Conclusion; Chapter 12: Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Wakefield"; Works Cited; Index