| The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story Revised Edition Contributor(s): Irwin, John T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801854660 ISBN-13: 9780801854668 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $29.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1996 Annotation: John Irwin brilliantly examines the deeper significance of the analytical detective genre which Poe created and the meaning of Borge's efforts to 'double' the genre's origins one hundred years later. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Mystery & Detective Fiction - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 813.3 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.82" W x 9.3" (1.72 lbs) 512 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In The Mystery to a Solution, John Irwin brilliantly examines the deeper significance of the analytical detective genre which Poe created and the meaning of Borges' efforts to "double" the genre's origins one hundred years later. Combining history, literary history, and practical and speculative criticism, Irwin pursues the issues underlying the detective story into areas as various as the history of mathematics, classical mythology, the double-mirror structure of self-consciousness, the anthropology of Evans and Frazer, the structure of chess, the mind-body problem, the etymology of the word labyrinth, and dozens of other topics. Irwin mirrors the aesthetic impact of the genre by creating in his study the dynamics of a detective story--the uncovering of mysteries, the accumulation of evidence, the tracing of clues, and the final solution that ties it all together. |
Contributor Bio(s): Irwin, John T.: - John T. Irwin is the Decker Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. His other books include F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction: "An Almost Theatrical Innocence"; The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story; and Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir, all published by Johns Hopkins. |