https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index en-au 5 https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:21847 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:55:30 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:21848 rompols (from roman policier, or crime novel). By mapping the plotline of L'Homme à l'envers (1999)[Seeking Whom He May Devour, (2006)] onto Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), I will show that in both works a metropolitan (outsider) detective investigates a murder by a large canid in the depths of the countryside. Then, in line with Pierre Bayard's famous rewriting of Conan Doyle's novel, the innocence of the convicted party will be shown to be the other side of guilt, a foreignness that lurks within but which careful reading can bring to the surface. I will also argue that, along with deconstructive and Freudian readins, the modernist figure of the Baudelairean flâneur highlights the Otherness of the investigation. By questioning the guilt of Vargas's other Other, I will take self-alterity to its logical (and logically nihilistic) end-point, opening up possibilities, here both criminal and textual, and reconsidering the culpability of the supposed murderer.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:55:29 AEDT ]]>