The Detective Novel: From its Origins to the Present Day

El primer curso que diera Borges en inglés, patrocinado por el Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Asociación Argentina de Cultura Inglesa. Miércoles 19hrs.

Un temario para el curso escrito en la letra de alguien que no es ni Borges ni su madre, Leonor Acevedo, es reproducido en El método Borges (2021), de Daniel Balderston (p.249):
1. The inventor Edgar Allan Poe. The tales of evil and the tales of detection.
2. Victorian England and the police novel. Wilkii[sic] Collins, Dickens, and Stevenson. The hint of danger in the stories of Sherlock Holmes.
3. Chesterton. The pattern that runs through his stories.
4. Crime fiction and the roles [sic] of the game. The contemporary scene in England.
5. The contemporary scene in America. The case of Willi [sic] Faulkner.
6. The future of the detective novel. Some minor prophecies (based in [sic] anthology)