Identification Through Technology in Contemporary Crime Narratives

• Authors: Ferenc Kocsis
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

I propose a somewhat new approach to examine the characteristic epistemological concerns that can be witnessed in Detective fiction. An approach that takes into account a constituent of the said model and was not dealt with in depth previously: the inevitable technological mediatedness between the Subjects taking part in the interpretative process that defines the subject

Keywords

EN

Contemporary Epistemology; Detective Fiction; Subject Theory; Surveillance Technology

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 195-202

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-05-01

Contributors

author

Ferenc Kocsis

• University of Szeged

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2014-0023