The tales of Edgar Allan Poe /
The original essays in this set illuminate the influences that shaped Poe, contextualize his work, and assess his enduring impact on American and European poetry and fiction.
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: | Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 2010. |
Series: | Critical insights.
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Table of Contents:
- On Poe's tales / Steven Frye
- Biography of Edgar Allan Poe / Charles E. May
- The Paris review perspective / Nathaniel Rich
- A debt owed, a debt paid? Poe's literary cultural heritage / Jeff Grieneisen, Courtney Ruffner
- Introduction to Poe criticism / Suan Amper
- "Hypocrite lecteur" : the reader as accomplice in Poe's short stories / Matthew J. Bolton
- Edgar Allan Poe's fantastic short stories / Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan
- Irresistible impulses : Edgar Allan Poe and the insanity defense / John Clemen
- The limits of reason : Poe's deluded detectives / J. Gerald Kennedy
- What happens in "The fall of the house of Usher"? / J.O. Bailey
- Poe and the powers of the mind / Robert Shulman
- The motive for murder in "The cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe / Elena V. Baraban
- The problem of realism in "The gold bug" / J. Woodrow Hassell, Jr.
- The self-consuming narrator in Poe's "Ligeia" and "Usher" / Ronald Bieganowski
- Poe's re-vision : the recovery of the second story / Cynthia S. Jordan
- Absolute Poe : his system of transcendental racism / Maurice S. Lee.