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The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story by Edgar Allan Poe
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Stimulating, despite insufficient editing of lecture texts., March 2, 1997
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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.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition
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