Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Selected Poetry, Tales, and Essays, Authoritative Texts with Essays on Three Critical Controversies

Gardner, Jared; Poe, Edgar Allan; Hewitt, Elizabeth

Bedford/Saint Martin's

04/2016

592

Mole

Inglês

9781457629327

15 a 20 dias

The text incorporates selections from Poe's fiction, poetry and nonfiction, along with critical essays representing three major critical and cultural controversies about Poe and his work: aesthetics and the literary marketplace; race; and gender and sexuality.
Contents.- Why Study Critical Controversies?.- PART ONE: Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Work.- The Life of Edgar Allan Poe.- POETRY Tamerlane; The Sleeper; The City In The Sea; To Helen; Lenore; Israfel; The Raven; To Marie Louise; Annabel Lee; For Annie.- TALES Metzengerstein; Berenice; Ligeia; How To Write A Blackwood Article; The Man That Was Used Up; The Fall Of The House Of Usher; William Wilson; The Man Of The Crowd; The Murders In The Rue Morgue; The Oval Portrait; The Pit And The Pendulum; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Black Cat; The Purloined Letter; The Imp of the Perverse; The Cask of Amontillado; Hop-Frog.- ESSAYS Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House; The Philosophy Of Composition.- PART TWO: A Case Study in Critical Controversy THE CONTROVERSY OVER AESTHETICS AND THE LITERARY MARKETPLACE; OR, IS POE A LITERARY GENIUS OR A POP CULTURE HACK? James Russell Lowell, "Edgar Allan Poe" (1845); James Russell Lowell, from "A Fable for Critics" (1848); Rufus Griswold, "Death of Edgar A. Poe" (1849); Rufus Griswold, "Preface" (1850); Charles Baudelaire, "New Notes on Edgar Poe" (1857); Sarah Helen Whitman, "Edgar Poe and His Critics" (1860); Henry James, "Charles Baudelaire" (1876); George Bernard Shaw, "Edgar Allan Poe" (1909); Yvor Winters, "Edgar Allan Poe: A Crisis in the History of American Obscurantism" (1937); T. S. Eliot, "From Poe to Valery" (1949); Allen Tate "The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe' (1968); E. L. Doctorow, "Our Edgar" (2006); J. Gerald Kennedy, "Poe in Our Time" (2001); Scott Peeples, "Lionizing; Poe as Cultural Signifier" (2004).- THE CONTROVERSY OVER RACE; OR, WHAT DID POE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT AFRICAN AMERICANS AND SLAVERY? Joan Dayan, "Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves" (1994); Lesley Ginsberg, "Slavery and the Gothic Horror of Poe's 'The Black Cat'" (1998); Terence Whalen, "Average Racism: Poe, Slavery, and the Wages of Literary Nationalism" (1999); Paul Gilmore, "'A Rara Avis in Terris'; Poe's 'Hop Frog' and Race in the Antebellum Freak Show" (2001); Maurice Lee, "Absolute Poe: His System of Transcendental Racism" (2003).- THE CONTROVERSY OVER GENDER AND SEXUALITY; OR, WHY IS POE SO OBSESSED WITH DEAD WOMEN? Beth Ann Bassein, "Poe's Most Poetic Subject" (1982); J. Gerald Kennedy, "Horrors of Translation: The Death of a Beautiful Woman" (1987); Cynthia S. Jordan, "Poe's Re-Vision: The Recovery of the Second Story" (1987); Leland S. Person, "Poe's Poetics of Desire: 'Th'Expanding Eye to the Loved Object'" (1999); Eliza Richards, "Women's Place in Poe Studies" (2000); Joseph Church, "'To Make Venus Vanish': Misogyny as Motive in Poe's 'Murder's in the Rue Morgue'" (2006); Valerie Rohy, "Ahistorical" (2006).- Appendix: How to Write about Critical Controversy over the Work of Edgar Allan Poe.- About the Editors.
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