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

The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story more books like this

by Professor John T Irwin

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, ...

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Doubling and Incest / Repetition and Revenge: A Speculative Reading of Faulkner

Doubling and Incest / Repetition and Revenge: A Speculative Reading of Faulkner more books like this

by Professor John T Irwin

This work is a psychoanalytic study of Faulkner's fiction, especially of "The Sound and the Fury" and "Absalom, Absalom!". It unwinds the mystery of unconscious desire and doubling which informs the novels.

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So the Story Goes: Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Short Fiction Series

So the Story Goes: Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Short Fiction Series more books like this

by Professor John T Irwin (Editor), Professor Jean McGarry (Editor), Professor John Barth (Foreword by)

Since its founding in 1979, the Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction series has published forty volumes of short fiction, beginning with Guy Davenport's acclaimed Da Vinci's Bicycle. The series was launched with two guiding principles: to publish works of short fiction exhibiting formal excellence and strong emotional appeal and to publish writers at ...

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Words Brushed by Music: Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Poetry Series more books like this

by Professor John T Irwin, Mr. Anthony Hecht (Foreword by)

Over the past twenty-five years, the Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction series has published thirty-one volumes of poetry, beginning in 1979 with John Hollander's Blue Wine and Other Poems. The series was launched with two guiding principles: to publish works of poetry exhibiting formal excellence and strong emotional appeal and to publish writers ...

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Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir

Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir more books like this

by Professor John T Irwin

Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the "hard-boiled" detective, most famously exemplified by Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon". Unlike the analytical detectives of nineteenth-century fiction, such as Edgar Allan Poe's detective Dupin, ...

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