#12749. Primates in Paris and Edgar Allan poes paradoxical commitment to foreign languages

September 2026publication date
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Abstract:
Drawing on recent innovations in detective criticism in France, this article broadens the quest to exonerate Poes famous orang-utan and argues that the Urtext of modern Anglo-American crime fiction is simultaneously a rejection of linguistic dominance (of English in this case) and an apologia for modern languages. This promotion of linguistic diversity goes hand in hand with the wilful non-self-coincidence of Poes detection narrative, which recalls, and pre-empts, the whos-strangling-whom? paradox of deconstructionist criticism. Although The Murders in the Rue Morgue is prescient, founding modern crime fiction for future generations, it is entwined with a nineteenth-century tradition of sculpture that not only poses men fighting with animals but also inverts classical scenarios, thereby questioning the binary of savagery versus civilization and investing animals with the strength to kill humans while also positing them as the victims of human violence.
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