The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story - Couverture rigide

Irwin, John T.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801846501 ISBN 13 : 9780801846502

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994

Synopsis

In "The Mystery to a Solution", John Irwin examines the deeper significance of the genre Poe created and the meaning of Borges's efforts to "double" its origin. Drawing on history, literary history, and practical and speculative criticism, Irwin pursues issues underlying the detective genre 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, automata, the mind-body problem, the etymology of labyrinth, and scores of other topics. Throughout his inquiry, Irwin honours the aesthetic impact on the genre he discusses by relying on the dynamics of the detective story - the uncovering of mysteries, the accumulation of evidence, the tracing of clues, and the final solution that ties it all together. Irwin's other books include "Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge", "American Hieroglyphics" and "The Heisenberg Variations".

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John T. Irwin is the Decker Professor in the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University, where he formerly served as chair of the Writing Seminars. His previous books include The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story, recipient of the Modern Language Association’s Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies and Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801846501
• ISBN 13: 9780801846502
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 512
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