Ligeia

Author : Edgar Allen Poe
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ligeia by Edgar Allen Poe Pdf

I cannot, for my soul, remember how, when, or even precisely where, I first became acquainted with the lady Ligeia. Long years have since elapsed, and my memory is feeble through much suffering. Or, perhaps, I cannot now bring these points to mind, because, in truth, the character of my beloved, her rare learning, her singular yet placid caste of beauty, and the thrilling and enthralling eloquence of her low musical language, made their way into my heart by paces so steadily and stealthily progressive, that they have been unnoticed and unknown. Yet I believe that I met her first and most frequently in some large, old, decaying city near the Rhine. Of her family I have surely heard her speak. That it is of a remotely ancient date cannot be doubted. Ligeia! Ligeia! Buried in studies of a nature more than all else adapted to deaden impressions of the outward world, it is by that sweet word alone—by Ligeia

Author : Gale, Cengage
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781535867788

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A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia" by Gale, Cengage Pdf

A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Selected Stories of Edgar Allan Poe Part I : Ligeia/The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket/The Crow/Greatest Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

This Combo Collection (Set of 4 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: Ligeia The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket : Edgar Allan Poe's Best Classic Horror Thrillers The Crow Greatest Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

Author : August J. Nigro
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0941664023

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The Diagonal Line by August J. Nigro Pdf

Suggests that the understanding of American literature can be expanded through an examination of the universal symbolic pattern that underlies the Adamic myth -- the pattern of separation from and reparation with the boundless.

Author : Jennifer Camden
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754666794

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Secondary Heroines in Nineteenth-century British and American Novels by Jennifer Camden Pdf

Taking up works by Samuel Richardson, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Walter Scott, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick, among others, Jennifer B. Camden examines the role of secondary heroines in early British and American novels. By showing that they are a site for the displaced anxieties produced by the national ideals proffered in the novel, Camden offers an important intervention into the ways in which early novels use character to further ideologies of race, class, sex, and gender.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726587128

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Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

From time immemorial, men have trembled and withered before the power of the femme fatale. "Ligeia" is a story about a man, whose meeting with a strange, beautiful, and overly intellectual woman in an old city borders on the supernatural and even further into the realms of the unknown. Touching upon subjects like forbidden knowledge and bizarre beauty, Poe’s story serves as an example of what awaits men who are easily led astray and then lost in the labyrinthine vistas of female beauty. Famous movie adaptations include Alfred Hitchcock’s "Vertigo" (1958) and Roger Corman’s "The Tomb of Ligeia" (1964). Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, author, and literary critic. Most famous for his poetry, short stories, and tales of the supernatural, mysterious, and macabre, he is also regarded as the inventor of the detective genre and a contributor to the emergence of science fiction, dark romanticism, and weird fiction. His most famous works include "The Raven" (1945), "The Black Cat" (1943), and "The Gold-Bug" (1843).

Author : Scott Peeples
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fantasy literature, American
ISBN : 9781571132185

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The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe by Scott Peeples Pdf

Controversies abound in studies of Edgar Allan Poe. From the time of his 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 dream-like stories to his personality. The status of Poe's literary productions was similarly disputed; dismissed by the New Critics but championed by poets such as William Carlos Williams and Allen Tate. Recent scholars have debated the meaning and significance of Poe's representations of race, class, and gender, often returning to the character issue: how racist and misogynist was he, and how important are those questions to understanding his work? Finally, how have the seemingly countless plays, films, novels, comic books, and pop music experiments based on his image and works intertwined with academic study of Poe? This book examines these and other controversies, shedding light on broader issues of canon formation, the role of biography in literary study, and the importance of integrating various, even conflicting interpretations into one's own reading of a literary work. This book will be of great interest to Poe scholars, both those who have been a part of the literary battles described above and newcomers to the field who can use the book as a guide to the field of Poe studies, and to all those interested in Poe and his work. Scott Peeples is associate professor of English at the College of Charleston.

Author : Augusta Read Thomas,Leslie Dunton-Downer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Operas
ISBN : UCSD:31822020166021

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Ligeia by Augusta Read Thomas,Leslie Dunton-Downer Pdf

Author : J. Gerald Kennedy,Scott Peeples
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190925086

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The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe by J. Gerald Kennedy,Scott Peeples Pdf

No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated, read, and studied, he occupies an iconic place in global culture. Such acclaim would have gratified Poe, who deliberately wrote for "the world at large" and mocked the provincialism of strictly nationalistic themes. Partly for this reason, early literary historians cast Poe as an outsider, regarding his dark fantasies as extraneous to American life and experience. Only in the 20th century did Poe finally gain a prominent place in the national canon. Changing critical approaches have deepened our understanding of Poe's complexity and revealed an author who defies easy classification. New models of interpretation have excited fresh debates about his essential genius, his subversive imagination, his cultural insight, and his ultimate impact, urging an expansive reconsideration of his literary achievement. Edited by leading experts J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples, this volume presents a sweeping reexamination of Poe's work. Forty-five distinguished scholars address Poe's troubled life and checkered career as a "magazinist," his poetry and prose, and his reviews, essays, opinions, and marginalia. The chapters provide fresh insights into Poe's lasting impact on subsequent literature, music, art, comics, and film and illuminate his radical conception of the universe, science, and the human mind. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking, this Handbook reveals a thoroughly modern Poe, whose timeless fables of peril and loss will continue to attract new generations of readers and scholars.

Author : Shawn James Rosenheim,Stephen Rachman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801850258

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The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe by Shawn James Rosenheim,Stephen Rachman Pdf

Renza, Shawn Rosenheim, and Laura Saltz.--Kenneth Dauber, State University of New York, Buffalo

Author : Randall A. Clack
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313001567

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The Marriage of Heaven and Earth by Randall A. Clack Pdf

From the Middle Ages to the close of the 17th century, alchemy was fundamental to Western culture, as scores of experimenters sought to change lead into gold. Though its significance declined with the rise of chemistry, alchemy continued to captivate the imagination of writers and its images still appear in modern creative works. This book examines the literary representation of alchemical theory and the metaphor of alchemical regeneration in the works of Edward Taylor, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller. While Taylor used alchemical metaphors to illustrate the redeeming grace of God upon the soul, these same metaphors were used by Poe, Hawthorne, and Fuller to depict a broader concept of redemption. These later writers used alchemical imagery to describe both the regeneration of the individual and the possible transformation of society. For Poe, alchemy became a metaphor for the transforming power of imagination; for Hawthorne, it became a means of representing the redeeming power of love; for Fuller, it figured the reconciliation of gender opposites. Thus these four American writers incorporated the idea of regeneration in their works, and the tropes and metaphors of the medieval alchemists provided a fascinating way of imagining the transformative process.

Author : R. C. De Prospo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611496000

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The Latest Early American Literature by R. C. De Prospo Pdf

The Latest Early American Literature, according to readers for the University of Delaware Press, is “a collection of polemics and manifestoes.” In it R. C. De Prospo bids to follow in the footsteps of the two, rare, early Americanist dissenters whom Philip F. Gura once distinguished as “prophets without honor in the field”: William Spengemann and Michael Colacurcio. The book contends that a supposedly retired nationalist/modernist “telos” continues to reign in most of the latest scholarship, and even more influentially in all of the current literary histories and anthologies, no matter how expansive in gender, ethnic, racial, and “hemispheric” inclusiveness they profess to be. Old teloi, in particular that old American exceptionalist one, can be cunning. Updating and expanding upon essays written over the past thirty years, De Prospo proposes not only negatively to critique how the latest scholarly receptions of early American literature differ insignificantly from the earlier ones, but positively to propose how a transnationalist concession—that as a neocolonial culture America’s lags behind that of Europe—might advance post-modern historiography by radically repositioning the past as no longer the present’s diachronic predecessor but, to quote Lyotard’s semiotics, its synchronic “differend.” Closer to earth, De Prospo tries at the same time to remain mindful of the pedagogical imperative that ultimately to save the texts of early American literature will require making them legible to average non-specialist, never-to-become specialist undergraduate general education students. To facilitate this he introduces in the concluding section of The Latest Early American Literature what will probably be taken as its most radical intervention: the redefinition of Edgar Allan Poe as an early American writer.

Author : D. Perry,C. Sederholm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137041982

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Adapting Poe by D. Perry,C. Sederholm Pdf

Adapting Poe is a collection of essays that explores the way Edgar Allan Poe has been adapted over the last hundred years in film, comic art, music, and literary criticism. A major theme that pervades the study concerns the more recent re-imaginings of Poe in terms of identity construction in a postmodern era.

Author : Sean Moreland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611462418

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The Lovecraftian Poe by Sean Moreland Pdf

H.P. Lovecraft, one of the twentieth century’s most important writers in the genre of horror fiction, famously referred to Edgar Allan Poe as both his “model” and his “God of Fiction.” While scholars and readers of Poe’s and Lovecraft’s work have long recognized the connection between these authors, this collection of essays is the first in-depth study to explore the complex literary relationship between Lovecraft and Poe from a variety of critical perspectives. Of the thirteen essays included in this book, some consider how Poe’s work influenced Lovecraft in important ways. Other essays explore how Lovecraft’s fictional, critical, and poetic reception of Poe irrevocably changed how Poe’s work has been understood by subsequent generations of readers and interpreters. Addressing a variety of topics ranging from the psychology of influence to racial and sexual politics, the essays in this book also consider how Lovecraft’s interpretations of Poe have informed later adaptations of both writers’ works in films by Roger Corman and fiction by Stephen King, Thomas Ligotti, and Caitlin R. Kiernan. This collection is an indispensable resource not only for those who are interested in Poe’s and Lovecraft’s work specifically, but also for readers who wish to learn more about the modern history and evolution of Gothic, horror, and weird fiction.

Author : Leon Chai
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501745669

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The Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance by Leon Chai Pdf

The Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance illuminates the process by which the cultural legacy of European Romanticism was assimilated by and transformed in the literature of mid-nineteenth-century America. Leon Chai traces the development various governing concepts or tendencies from their genesis in British, French, and German Romantic traditions through their subsequent appropriation by such American writers as Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville. Among the topics he addresses are the shift from allegory to symbolism; selected trends in Romantic science; the secularization of religion; the emergence of a historical consciousness and a philosophy of history; pantheism; the relation of subjectivity to objectivity in Romantic philosophy; and Romantic poets.