{"product_id":"the-mystery-to-a-solution-poe-borges-and-the-analytic-detective-story-paperback","title":"The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn T. Irwin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language AssociationWinner of the Christian Gauss Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery to a Solution\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003elabyrinth\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Irwin brilliantly examines the deeper significance of the analytical detective genre which Poe created and the meaning of Borge's efforts to 'double' the genre's origins one hundred years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn T. Irwin \u003c\/b\u003e is Decker Professor of the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University. A former editor of the \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, he now edits the series \u003ci\u003eJohns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e for the Johns Hopkins University Press. His books include \u003ci\u003eDoubling and Incest\/Repetition and Revenge, The Heisenberg Variations, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Hieroglyphics\u003c\/i\u003e, all available from Johns Hopkins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 512\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.3 x 5.82 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42131372114055,"sku":"9780801854668","price":59.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/752902ea32a503b8869c93bc87a60ef0.webp?v=1732618436","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-mystery-to-a-solution-poe-borges-and-the-analytic-detective-story-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}