John T. Irwin (1940–2019)

Autor(a) de The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story

14+ Works 195 Membros 2 Reviews

About the Author

John T. Irwin is the Decker Professor in the Humanities emeritus at Johns Hopkins University. His books include F Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction: "An Almost Theatrical Innocence"; Hart Crane's Poetry: "Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio"; The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and mostrar mais the Analytic Detective Story; and Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir. mostrar menos

Includes the name: John Bricuth

Obras de John T. Irwin

Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir (2006) 29 cópias

Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge (1980) 23 cópias

American Hieroglyphics: The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance (1980) 23 cópias

Just Let Me Say This About That: A Narrative Poem (1998) 18 cópias

The Heisenberg variations (1976) 12 cópias

As Long as It's Big : A Narrative Poem (2005) 10 cópias

Hart Crane's Poetry: "Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio" (2011) 7 cópias

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction (2014) 7 cópias

The Poetry of Weldon Kees: Vanishing as Presence (2017) 6 cópias

Words Brushed by Music: Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Poetry Series (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) (2004) 4 cópias

So the Story Goes: Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Short Fiction Series (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) (2005) 4 cópias

By John T. Irwin - The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detectiv (1996-10-03) [Paperback] 1 exemplar(es)

Pure Products of America, Inc.: A Narrative Poem (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) (2015) 1 exemplar(es)

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Associated Works

The Best American Poetry 1998 (1998) — Contribuinte — 161 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Outros nomes: Bricuth, John (pseudonym)
Data de nascimento: 1940-04-24
Data de falecimento: 2019-12-20
Sexo: male
Nacionalidade: USA
Local de nascimento: Houston, Texas, USA
Educação: Rice University (PhD)

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As Long As It's Big: A Narrative Poem de John Bricuth

The most unusual and incredibly inventive "Poem" of all times, to me, a 7-act scenario of court proceedings of a divorce, alternately speaking re the judge and the two parties, all this after their child committed suicide

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betty_s | 1 outra resenha | Sep 13, 2023 |

As Long As It's Big: A Narrative Poem (Johns… de John Bricuth

As Long As It's Big by John Bricuth is a rather strange tale of a divorce court hearing. Framing the poignant and moving testimony of Mrs. and Mr. Fish are rollicking, rather scabrous, episodes of Mrs. Fish's elder sister, an Irish schoolbus of a woman, physically attacking her brother-in-law, his lawyer, policemen, and the judge. Bricuth's blank verse tercets are supple enough to handle both the farce --

She yells, " So they've sent the Black and
Tans." Well, judge, I'm blacker by a lot
Than Dobbs, but ain't no way no one could call him

"Tan," So I thinks, Who! we gots a regular
Looney on our hands. We try arrestin' her
And right away the scufflin' starts.

and the pain of loss --

Maybe he was wrong, but that's the sense
He'd got. Well there it was. I asked him did he
Realize we'd never get trust back like it'd

Been, that life for us would be this
Mended plate that couldn't take extremes
Of heat or cold, take any careless handling--

On the backcover, Harold Bloom praises it as a "new mode of American poetic tragicomedy....an exuberant chant...." I wasn't quite so rhapsodic, but I did find this a moving, if jolting, quick read.… (mais)

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janeajones | 1 outra resenha | May 18, 2009 |

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