The Mystery to a Solution
Subtitle: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 1, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780801846502
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Novels, other prose & writers; Mystery & Detective Fiction; Fictional works; Borges, Jorge Luis - Prose & Criticism; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Spanish; Literary Criticism; Argentina; USA; History and criticism; American - General; Borges, Jorge Luis; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Poe, Edgar Allan; American and Argentine; Poe, Edgar Allan,; Theory, etc; 1809-1849; Argentine and American; Detective and mystery stories; Literature, Comparative
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?