The Art of Detection of C. Auguste Dupin. A Comparison of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter"

Katharina Lurz

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Grin Verlag
Published
19 July 2018
Pages
20
ISBN
9783668750296

The Art of Detection of C. Auguste Dupin. A Comparison of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Purloined Letter”

Katharina Lurz

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Englisch - Literatur, Werke, Note: 2,0, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Bonn, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This term paper aims to explain Dupin's captivating and one-of-a-kind Art of Detection. On this account it will proceed with a Dupin-like method by analysing his methods in the first story that broaches the issue of C. Auguste Dupin, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", and afterwards in the last story of the three, "The Purloined Letter". In a final step it will draw a comparison between those two, especially focusing on what makes Dupin "the Analyst par excellence", analysing why he seems so "preternatural" and what his recurrent methods in those two stories are. In the conclusion it will sum up the detective's most significant characteristics of his Art of Detection and the features that fascinated and interested humanity for such a long time.

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