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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Stimulating, despite insufficient editing of lecture texts.,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story (Paperback)
Irwin's award winning book is a stimulating application of
now traditional 'new' literary criticism/analysis and more recent and
trendy (read: quasi-post-modern) devices.
The result is a frequently absorbing
study of the labyrinthine minds of Poe and Borges,
as seen principally through their related six detective
pieces.
Unfortunately the sutures as well as the strivings-for-effect from Irwin's foundational
lectures stand too proud, making for greater appeal to academics
than to even highly motivated general readers.
Irwin's work would find and deserve more cover-to-cover
readers, rather than citation researchers, if a
second edition were edited for repetitiveness and
prolixity.
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The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story by John T. Irwin (Hardcover - December 1, 1993)
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