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Poe set this method to work in many of his poems and
stories. But it is most obvious in his invention of the detective
story in which Dupin, his sleuth, is an artist-aesthete who
solves crimes by a method of artistic perception. Not only is the
detective story the great popular instance of working
backwards from effect to cause, it is also the form in which the
reader is deeply involved as co-author. Such is also the case in
symbolist poetry whose completion of effect from moment to
moment requires the reader to participate in the poetic process
itself.
It is a characteristic chiasmus that waits upon the
utmost development of any process that the last phase shall
show characteristics opposite to the early phases. A typical
example of massive psychic chiasmus or reversal occurred when
Western man fought the harder for individuality as he