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

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Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language AssociationWinner of the Christian Gauss Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society

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...