John T. Irwin is the Decker Professor in the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University, where he formerly served as chair of the Writing Seminars. His previous books include The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story, recipient of the Modern Language Association’s Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies and Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Prize.
Published Works
American Hieroglyphics
The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance
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Doubling and Incest / Repetition and Revenge
A Speculative Reading of Faulkner
revised and expanded edition
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