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Title Readings on Edgar Allan Poe / Bonnie Szumski, book editor ; Carol Prime, assistant editor.

Publication Info. San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, [1998]
©1998

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 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  813.3 POE REA    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  813.309 POE    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  813.09 POE REA    Check Shelf
Description 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series The Greenhaven Press literary companion to American authors
Greenhaven Press literary companion to American authors.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-186) and index.
Contents Edgar Allan Poe : a biography -- Edgar Allan Poe : an evaluation. An American genius / by Charles Baudelaire -- Poe is a terrible poet / by Aldous Huxley -- Poe invented the modern detective story / by Celestin Pierre Cambiaire -- Poe heavily influenced other writers / by Jeffrey Meyers -- Poe's theatricality is essential to his work / by W.H. Auden -- Poe's genius was in creating a self and a style / by N. Bryllion Fagin -- Poe as literary critic / by Edd Winfield Parks -- Poe's themes. Symbolism in Poe's tales / by Georges Zayed -- Death in Poe's writings / by J. Gerald Kennedy -- Fear as a theme in Poe's work / by Michael L. Burduck -- Poe's use of allegory / by Richard Wilbur -- Humor in Poe's tales / by James H. Justis -- Poe's use of horror / by Edward H. Davidson -- A critical selection. Poe explains "The raven" / by Edgar Allan Poe -- "The pit and the pendulum" : a Freudian interpretation / by Marie Bonaparte -- "Ligeia" : analyzing Poe's love stories / by D.H. Lawrence -- The psychology of "The tell-tale heart" / by E. Arthur Robinson -- "The fall of the house of Usher" : an allegory of the artist / by Daniel Hoffman.
Summary Contains a brief biography of author Edgar Allen Poe, and includes a collection of essays that provide literary analysis and criticism of his writings.
Subject Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Fantasy literature, American -- History and criticism.
Hospitals, Psychiatric.
Violence -- prevention & control.
Crisis Intervention -- methods.
Health Personnel -- psychology.
Patients -- psychology.
Québec.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 (OCoLC)fst00032674
Fantasy literature, American. (OCoLC)fst00920862
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. (DE-588)11859527X
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Added Author Szumski, Bonnie, 1958-
Prime, Carol.
Added Title Edgar Allan Poe
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