Meet John T. Irwin

John T. Irwin
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

The Poetry of Weldon Kees
Vanishing as Presence

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American Hieroglyphics
The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction
"An Almost Theatrical Innocence"

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Hart Crane's Poetry
"Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio"

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Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them
Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir

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So the Story Goes
Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Short Fiction Series

edited by John T. Irwin and Jean McGarry
foreword by John Barth

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Words Brushed by Music
Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Poetry Series

edited by John T. Irwin
with a foreword by Anthony Hecht

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Doubling and Incest / Repetition and Revenge
A Speculative Reading of Faulkner

John T. Irwin

revised and expanded edition
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The Mystery to a Solution
Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story

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