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He goes on to argue that, from the time of World War II, when hard-boiled fiction began to appear on the screen in film noir just as women entered the workforce in large numbers, many of its themes came to extend to female empowerment. 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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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51007195742481,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007198658833,"sku":"NIN9780801854668","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51694192263441,"sku":"CIN0801854660G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52426027958545,"sku":"NLS9780801854668","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801854660.jpg?v=1750980340"},{"product_id":"poetry-of-weldon-kees-book-john-t-irwin-9781421422619","title":"The Poetry of Weldon Kees","description":"Weldon Kees is one of those fascinating people of whom you've likely never heard. 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Irwin acts the part of literary detective, following clues left behind by the poet to make sense of Kees's fascination with death, disappearance, and the lasting interpretation of an artist's work. Arguing that Kees's apparent suicide was a carefully plotted final aesthetic act, Irwin uses the poet's disappearance as a lens through which to detect and interpret the structures, motifs, and images throughout his poems-as the author intended. 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