| Description |
xx, 364 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Beyond "The Problem of Poe" / Shawn Rosenheim and Stephen Rachman -- Being Odd, Getting Even (Descartes, Emerson, Poe) / Stanley Cavell -- Strange Fits: Poe and Wordsworth on the Nature of Poetic Language / Barbara Johnson -- "Es lasst sich nicht schreiben": Plagiarism and "The Man of the Crowd" / Stephen Rachman -- Terminate or Liquidate? Poe, Sensationalism, and the Sentimental Tradition / Jonathan Elmer -- Revivification and Utopian Time: Poe versus Stowe / Eva Cherniavsky -- A Clew to a Clue: Locked Rooms and Labyrinths in Poe and Borges / John T. Irwin -- Detective Fiction, Psychoanalysis, and the Analytic Sublime / Shawn Rosenheim -- Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves / Joan Dayan -- Poe and Gentry Virginia / David Leverenz -- "(Horrible to Relate!)": Recovering the Body of Marie Roget / Laura Saltz -- Poe, Literary Nationalism, and Authorial Identity / Meredith L. Mcgill |
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"Ut Pictura Poe": Poetic Politics in "The Island of the Fay" and "Morning on the Wissahiccon" / Louis A. Renza -- The Poetics of Extinction / Gillian Brown |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-361) |
| Subject |
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Comparative literature -- American and foreign
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Comparative literature -- Foreign and American
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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| Author |
Rachman, Stephen.
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Rosenheim, Shawn.
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| LC no. |
95010302 |
| ISBN |
080185024X (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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0801850258 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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