Mystery to a Solution

Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum1994-01-26
Mått152 x 229 x 31 mm
Vikt737 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor512
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801854668
UtmärkelserWinner of Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies 1997 (United States)

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This is a fine book... Irwin has travelled far and profitably, indeed, into the history of chess, into geometry and algebra, into mythology, into alchemy, into the culture of labyrinths, and more besides. -- John Sturrock Times Literary Supplement [Irwin] has probed the labyrinthine depths principally of Poe and Borges, using the analytic tools of Jung, Lacan, and Derrida, and a score of other psychological interpreters of fiction... The result is dazzling. America [A] learned, capacious, and ultimately amazing book. Virginia Quarterly Review