| Description |
x, 270 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Best from American literature |
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Best from American literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Poe and phrenology / Edward Hungerford -- Poe as social critic / Ernest Marchand -- Edgar Allan Poe, cryptographer / William F. Friedman -- Edgar Allan Poe : a crisis in the history of American obscurantism / Yvor Winters -- Poe and the chess automaton / W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. -- The refrain in Poe's poetry / Anthony Caputi -- Poe and his nemesis, Lewis Gaylord Clark / Sidney P. Moss -- Poe as literary theorist : a reappraisal / Emerson R. Marks -- The comic in Poe's fiction / Stephen L. Mooney -- Poe's "Metzengerstein" : not a hoax / Benjamin F. Fisher -- Poe's sense of an ending / Paul John Eakin --The limits of reason : Poe's deluded detectives / J. Gerald Kennedy -- Usher's hypochondriasis : mental alienation and romantic idealism in Poe's Gothic tales / David W. Butler -- Poe and the theme of forbidden knowledge / Jules Zanger -- "The language of the cipher" : interpretation in "The gold-bug" / Michael Williams -- The psychology of "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / J.A. Leo Lemay -- Poe's re-vision : the recovery of the second story / Cynthia S. Jordan. |
| Subject |
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Indexed Term |
English literature |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Budd, Louis J.
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Cady, Edwin Harrison.
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| ISBN |
0822313111 (acid-free paper) |
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9780822313113 (acid-free paper) |
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