LET ME START WITH A simple-minded question: How does one write analytic detective fiction as high art when the genre's central narrative mechanism seems to discourage the unlimited rereading associated with serious writing?
An edition of The Mystery to a Solution
(1993)
The Mystery to a Solution
Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story
by John T. Irwin
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Publish Date
September 18, 1996
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The Johns Hopkins University Press
Language
English
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512
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Detective and mystery stories, Comparative Literature, History and criticism, American and Argentine, Theory, Fiction, Argentine and American, Fictional works, Technique, Literature, Comparative, Poe, edgar allan, 1809-1849, Borges, jorge luis, 1899-1986, Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism, Comparative literature, Œuvres romanesques, Roman policier, Histoire et critique, Théorie, Littérature comparée, Américaine et argentine, Argentine et américaine, Criticism and interpretation, Misdaadverhalen| Edition | Availability |
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The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story
September 18, 1996, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Paperback
in English
0801854660 9780801854668
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The mystery to a solution: Poe, Borges, and the analytic detective story
1994, Johns Hopkins University Press
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The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story
December 1, 1993, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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0801846501 9780801846502
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