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“john t irwin”

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  • Unless the Threat of Death is Behind Them

    Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir

    by John T. Irwin ...
    The noted literary critic delves into the psychology and significance of American hardboiled crime fiction and film noir of the 1930s and '40s.Early in the twentieth century, American crime novelists like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler put forward a new kind of character: the "hard-boiled" detective, as exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Unlike the analytical detectives of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Hieroglyphics

    The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance

    by John T. Irwin ...
    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 MillerThe 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hart Crane's Poetry

    "Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio"

    by John T. Irwin ...
    Honorable Mention, Literature, 2012 PROSE Awards, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers2012 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineIn 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 ... Read more

    $33.59 USD

  • Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them

    Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir

    by John T. Irwin ...
    Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the “hard-boiled” detective, most famously exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Unlike the analytical detectives of nineteenth-century fiction, such as Edgar Allan Poe’s Inspector Dupin, the new detectives encountered cases not as intricate ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction

    “An Almost Theatrical Innocence”

    by John T. Irwin ...
    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 ... Read more

    $37.69 USD

  • The Poetry of Weldon Kees

    Vanishing as Presence

    by John T. Irwin ...
    A study in how a poet’s corpus is remembered after he vanishes.Weldon Kees is one of those fascinating people of whom you’ve likely never heard. Most intriguingly, he disappeared without a trace on July 18, 1955. Police found his 1954 Plymouth Savoy abandoned on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge one day later. The keys were still in the ignition. Though Kees had alluded days prior to ... Read more

    $29.49 USD