Format:
xviii, 860 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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26 cm
ISBN:
9780190641870
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0190641878
Content:
No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated, read, and studied, he occupies an iconic place in global culture. Such acclaim would have gratified Poe, who deliberately wrote for "the world at large" and mocked the provincialism of strictly nationalistic themes. Partly for this reason, early literary historians cast Poe as an outsider, regarding his dark fantasies as extraneous to American life and experience. Only in the 20th century did Poe finally gain a prominent place in the national canon. Changing critical approaches have deepened our understanding of Poe's complexity and revealed an author who defies easy classification. New models of interpretation have excited fresh debates about his essential genius, his subversive imagination, his cultural insight, and his ultimate impact, urging an expansive reconsideration of his literary achievement.
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Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe The Oxford handbook of Edgar Allan Poe New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018 ISBN 9780190641894
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
Poe, Edgar Allan 1809-1849
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