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"[This book] is the exploration by a distinguished American poet and critic of his own lifelong fascination with the work of Edgar Allan Poe. ... Delving ... into the clues to Poe's achievement--as poet, as aesthetician, as inventor of science fiction and the mystery tale, as explorer of the human soul--Daniel Hoffman builds a sympathetic case for this tormented author, baring the secret of his 'inescapable truths' and the hold they have on his readers."--Dust...
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"Most frequently regarded as a writer of the supernatural, Poe was actually among the most versatile of American authors, writing social satire, comic hoaxes, mystery stories, science fiction, prose poems, literary criticism and theory, and even a play. As a journalist and editor, Poe was closely in touch with the social, political, and cultural trends of nineteenth-century America. Recent scholarship has linked Poe's imaginative writings to the historical...
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"The essays in this collection were originally presented as talks at the Poe Studies Association's Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference: The Bicentennial in October 2009. All the essays in this volume deal with Poe's influence on authors from the United States and abroad. In addition, the collection includes two examples of primary texts by contemporary authors whose work is directly related to Poe's work or life: an interview with Japanese...
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The popular Poe--The Raven, Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat--has inspired a generation of readers long disenchanted with the normative tradition of American literature. But is the popular Poe--incessantly drinking, drug-addicted, and entranced by the terror of death--the real Poe? Harry Lee Poe contends that, for more than two centuries, the great myth of Edgar Allan Poe has damaged both the popular reader's understanding of Poe's corpus and the historian's...
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"Controversies abound in studies of Edgar Allan Poe. From the time of Poe's death well into the twentieth century, partisans debated the issue of his character: was he an alcoholic? drug addict? pathological liar? necrophile? In the 1920s and 30s, psychoanalytic critics sought to divorce the study of Poe from Victorian moral concerns, but in the process made scandalous claims by linking Poe's dreamlike stories to his personality." "The status of Poe's...
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"Much remains uncertain about the life of Edgar Allan Poe, the mysterious author of one of the best-known American poems, "The Raven," the Gothic romance "The Fall of the House of Usher," and the first detective fiction, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." This book provides a balanced overview of Poe's career and writings, resisting the tendency of many scholars to sensationalize the more enigmatic aspects of his life. Benjamin E. Fisher outlines Poe's...
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"This work examines a wide selection of mystery and thriller novels, films, television programs, and video games to explore Edgar Allan Poe's ongoing influence on entertainment. Authors such as Michael Connelly, Stieg Larsson and Dennis Lehane, television shows and movies all receive attention"--Provided by publisher.
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