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The Mystery to a Solution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 516

The Mystery to a Solution

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Irwin 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.

American Hieroglyphics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 419

American Hieroglyphics

How the discovery of the Rosetta Stone led to new ways of thinking about language: “A brilliant new interpretation of major 19th-century American writers.” —J. Hillis Miller The discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the subsequent decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics captured the imaginations of nineteenth-century American writers and provided a focal point for their speculations on the relationships between sign, symbol, language, and meaning. Through fresh readings of classic works by Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville, John T. Irwin’s American Hieroglyphics examines the symbolic mode associated with the pictographs. Irwin demonstrates how American Symbolist literature of the period was motivated by what he calls “hieroglyphic doubling,” the use of pictographic expression as a medium of both expression and interpretation. Along the way, he touches upon a wide range of topics that fascinated people of the day, including the journey to the source of the Nile and ideas about the origin of language.

Doubling and Incest/repetition and Revenge
  • Language: en

Doubling and Incest/repetition and Revenge

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-03-28
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

A personal interpretation of one of America’s most important writers. “Fitzgerald’s work has always deeply moved me,” writes John T. Irwin. “And this is as true now as it was fifty years ago when I first picked up The Great Gatsby. I can still remember the occasions when I first read each of his novels; remember the time, place, and mood of those early readings, as well as the way each work seemed to speak to something going on in my life at that moment. Because the things that interested Fitzgerald were the things that interested me and because there seemed to be so many similarities in our backgrounds, his work always possessed for me a special, personal authority; it became a fo...

Hart Crane's Poetry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 439

Hart Crane's Poetry

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-17
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

In one of his letters Hart Crane wrote, "Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio," comparing—misspelling and all—the great French poet’s cosmopolitan roots to his own more modest ones in the midwestern United States. Rebelling against the notion that his work should relate to some European school of thought, Crane defiantly asserted his freedom to be himself, a true American writer. John T. Irwin, long a passionate and brilliant critic of Crane, gives readers the first major interpretation of the poet’s work in decades. Irwin aims to show that Hart Crane’s epic The Bridge is the best twentieth-century long poem in English. Irwin convincingly argues that, compared to ...

Lifers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Lifers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-03-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional wisdom on homicide, society’s purposes of imprisonment, and offenders’ reformability. Through the lifers’ stories, he reveals what happens to prisoners serving very long sentences in correctional facilities and what this should tell us about effective sentencing policy.

The Poetry of Weldon Kees
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 118

The Poetry of Weldon Kees

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-05
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

People who vanish -- An almost invisible note -- The excellence of Weldon Kees -- "The dynamics of inferential mention": Hart Crane's influence on Kees -- Kees, a learned poet -- "Relating to robinson": mystery and literary interpretation

A People and Their Quilts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

A People and Their Quilts

Quilts are a reflection of the people who made, used, and cherished them through the years. The author has interviewed hundreds of old-time quilters, some of whom were over one hundred years old. The interviews are accompanied by a rich selection of photographs. Emphasis is placed on quilts and quilters in the Southern Appalachian region, but quilts from throughout America are included.

Official Register
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1442

Official Register

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1892
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Jail
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

The Jail

  • Categories: Law

Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, the author describes the big-city jail and how it disorients and degrades people to a "rabble." This is a reissue of the work that was published in 1987.