The Mystery to a Solution
Subtitle: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 18, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780801854668
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Novels, other prose & writers; Semiotics & Theory; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; Mystery & Detective Fiction; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory
First sentence: LET ME START WITH A simple-minded question: How does one write analytic detective fiction as high art when the genre's central narrative mechanism seems to discourage the unlimited rereading associated with serious writing?