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- catalog abstract "When Poe invented the analytic detective genre in the 1840s with the three Dupin stories, his underlying project was to examine the very nature of self-consciousness. But the tradition of detective fiction these stories inspired would draw on only the most superficial aspects of his work. One hundred years after Poe, however, Borges would reinterpret the genre with three detective stories of his own and revive Poe's original, ambitious intention to analyze "the analytic power." In The Mystery to a Solution, John Irwin brilliantly examines the deeper significance of the genre Poe created and the meaning of Borges's efforts to "double" its origin. Using a methodology that combines history, literary history, and practical and speculative criticism, Irwin pursues the issues underlying the detective genre into areas as various as the history of mathematics, classical mythology, the double-mirror structure of self-consciousness, handedness, the anthropology of Evans and Frazer, the structure of chess, automata, the mind-body problem, the etymology of labyrinth, and scores of other topics. Irwin honors the aesthetic impact of the genre he discusses by mirroring 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.".
- catalog contributor b5744953.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-464) and index.".
- catalog description "When Poe invented the analytic detective genre in the 1840s with the three Dupin stories, his underlying project was to examine the very nature of self-consciousness. But the tradition of detective fiction these stories inspired would draw on only the most superficial aspects of his work. One hundred years after Poe, however, Borges would reinterpret the genre with three detective stories of his own and revive Poe's original, ambitious intention to analyze "the analytic power." In The Mystery to a Solution, John Irwin brilliantly examines the deeper significance of the genre Poe created and the meaning of Borges's efforts to "double" its origin. Using a methodology that combines history, literary history, and practical and speculative criticism, Irwin pursues the issues underlying the detective genre into areas as various as the history of mathematics, classical mythology, the double-mirror structure of self-consciousness, handedness, the anthropology of Evans and Frazer, the structure of chess, automata, the mind-body problem, the etymology of labyrinth, and scores of other topics. Irwin honors the aesthetic impact of the genre he discusses by mirroring 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.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 482 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Mystery to a solution.".
- catalog identifier "0801846501 (hc : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Mystery to a solution.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Mystery to a solution.".
- catalog subject "813/.3 20".
- catalog subject "Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 Fictional works.".
- catalog subject "Comparative literature American and Argentine.".
- catalog subject "Comparative literature Argentine and American.".
- catalog subject "Detective and mystery stories History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "Fiction Technique.".
- catalog subject "Literature, Comparative American and Argentine.".
- catalog subject "Literature, Comparative Argentine and American.".
- catalog subject "PS2642.F43 I78 1994".
- catalog subject "Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 Fictional works.".
- catalog title "The mystery to a solution : Poe, Borges, and the analytic detective story / John T. Irwin.".
- catalog type "text".