The Mystery to a Solution by John T Irwin
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.
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
John T. Irwin is Decker Professor of the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University. A former editor of the Georgia Review, he now edits the series Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction for the Johns Hopkins University Press. His books include Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge, The Heisenberg Variations, and American Hieroglyphics, all available from Johns Hopkins.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801854668 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801854660 |
| Title | The Mystery to a Solution |
| Author | John T Irwin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 1994-01-26 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
| Prizes | Winner of Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies 1997 (United States), Winner of Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Award 1997 (United States) |
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