Adrian at Johns Hopkins writes:
<< The class is taught by John T. Irwin >>
John T. Irwin holds a pretty high position in the lit crit
world (or did a few years back), and there is some meaning
(within this admittedly narrow world) that he is focusing on
this theme/literature (though he has that interest in Poe,
Borges, etc.). Just to provide another cultural/historical
view on this topic, from 1984-96, I was affiliated with two
English departments that then and now claim (and do pat
themselves on the back) to be the best in the United States
(based in part, I guess, on their #1 ranking in English
Departments in U.S. News & World Report). Neither, to my
knowledge, ever taught a class solely devoted to crime
fiction. In fact, neither had any commitment to teaching any
post-war literature at all and did not award tenure to
faculty who focused on contemporary literature. In a class on
American modernism, however, Hammett's "Red Harvest" was
taught alongside Hemingway, Fitzgerald, etc.
ex-academically yours, Doug
ps -- I'm getting ready to post on another Taboada
favorite--Charles Williams--someone could start on him. He
surely doesn't deserve his diminishing, out-of-print
status.
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