[PDF.78at] The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story

The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story

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 | #1482341 in Books |  Johns Hopkins University Press |  1996-09-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x1.28 x6.00l,1.72 | File type: PDF | 512 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| I bought it for Pythagoras!|By Izi|Invaluable resource for Poe, I purchased it only to access its extensive information surrounding Pythagoras and the Tetractys of the Decad! A must-have for Neo Pythagoreans, so I can't imagine how much Poe buffs will enjoy this! Clever, stunning and beautiful insights into his stories and the complex mind of this genius are found here. Very we| ||"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)

In The Mystery to a Solution, 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 structur...

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