Format:
XIX, 191 Seiten
ISBN:
9781433169328
Content:
Foreword : Poe's difference -- "An anomaly on the face of the earth": Poe's reviews -- Poe's Pym/Stevenson's Jim -- Pym, Prometheus, and the marinere -- Afterword : Poe's Parelcon.
Content:
"Poe's Difference argues that Poe has much more in common with early American, medieval, and ancient writers than with the modern and post-modern ones with whom the writer is so often associated. R.C. De Prospo emphasizes Poe's anachronisms to make a number of theoretical, pedagogical, literary historical, and political claims about the backwardness of antebellum US culture generally. Some time ago Michael Colacurcio issued the challenge: 'the full case for the Puritan character of Poe's 'horror' remains to be made.' Although going back a good deal further than just to the 'Puritans,' Poe's Difference aspires fully to make precisely this case"--
Note:
Literaturangaben
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781433169335
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781433169342
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781433169359
Language:
English
Keywords:
Poe, Edgar Allan 1809-1849
;
Poe, Edgar Allan 1809-1849
Author information:
De Prospo, R. C. 1949-
