{"product_id":"the-mystery-to-a-solution-9780801854668","title":"The Mystery to a Solution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIrwin mirrors the aesthetic impact of the genre by creating in his study the dynamics of a detective story-the uncovering of mysteries, the accumulation of evidence, the tracing of clues, and the final solution that ties it all together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a fine book... Irwin has travelled far and profitably, indeed, into the history of chess, into geometry and algebra, into mythology, into alchemy, into the culture of labyrinths, and more besides. -- John Sturrock Times Literary Supplement [Irwin] has probed the labyrinthine depths principally of Poe and Borges, using the analytic tools of Jung, Lacan, and Derrida, and a score of other psychological interpreters of fiction... The result is dazzling. America [A] learned, capacious, and ultimately amazing book. Virginia Quarterly Review","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405188342103,"sku":"9780801854668","price":30.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-mystery-to-a-solution-9780801854668","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}