Rose Poe

Author : Jack Todd
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781773051017

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Rose & Poe by Jack Todd Pdf

ÒPowerful . . . ToddÕs vivid language is perfectly suited to the epic sweep of his narrative.Ó Ñ Publishers Weekly, starred review of Rain Falls Like Mercy Set in mythical Belle Coeur County in a time not too far from our own, Rose & Poe gloriously re-imagines ShakespeareÕs The Tempest from the point of view of Caliban and his mother. Rose and her giant, simple son, Poe, live quietly on the fringes of their town Ñ tending their goats and working at odd jobs. Prosper Thorne, banished from his big-city law practice and worrying about his fading memory, obsessively watches over his beloved daughter Miranda. When Poe erupts from the forest one day carrying MirandaÕs bruised and bloody body, he is arrested, despite his protestations of get help-get help-get help. Overnight, Rose and Poe find themselves pariahs in the county where they have lived all their lives. In the face of bitter hatred and threats from her neighbours, the implacable Rose devotes all her strength to proving PoeÕs innocence and saving him from prison or worse. Rose & Poe is a tale of a motherÕs boundless love for an apparently unlovable child, and a stunning fable for our own troubled times. It will stick in your memory like sweet wild honey.

Author : Susan Archer Talley Weiss
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547320326

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The Home Life of Poe by Susan Archer Talley Weiss Pdf

The following work, written by Susan Archer Weiss, examines the domestic aspect of Edgar Allan Poe's life. He was married to Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, who was his first cousin. Controversially, Virginia was 13 and Poe was 27 when they married. Biographers disagree as to the nature of the couple's relationship. She contracted tuberculosis, growing worse for five years until she died of the disease at the age of 24 in the family's cottage, at that time outside New York City.

Author : Sharon Pajka
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439678800

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The Souls Close to Edgar Allan Poe by Sharon Pajka Pdf

Journey to the burial places of the people who lived in Poe's world. Edgar Allan Poe considered himself a Virginian. Credited with originating the modern detective story, developing Gothic horror tales, and writing the precursor to science fiction, Poe worked to elevate Southern literature. He lived in the South most of his life, died in Baltimore and made his final home in Richmond. His family and many of his closest associates were southerners. Visit the graves of the people with whom he worked and socialized, who he loved and at times loathed and gain a fuller understanding of Poe's life. These were individuals who supported, inspired, and challenged him, and even a few who attempted to foil his plans. Professor and cemetery historian Sharon Pajka tells their stories.

Author : Richard Kopley
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822312468

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Poe's Pym by Richard Kopley Pdf

"The interpreter's dream-text," as one critic called Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym has prompted critical approaches almost as varied as the experiences it chronicles. This is the first book to deal exclusively with Pym, Poe's longest fictional work and in many ways his most ambitious. Here leading Poe scholars provide solutions and interpretations for many challenging enigmas in this mysterious novel. The product of a decade of research and planning, Poe's "Pym" offers a factual basis for some of the most fantastic elements in the novel and uncovers surprising connections between Poe's text and exploration literature, nautical lore, Arthurian narrative, nineteenth-century journalism, Moby Dick, and other writings. Representing a rich cross-section of current modes of literary study--from source study to psychoanalytic criticism to new historicism--these sixteen essays probe issues such as literary influence, the limits of language, racism, the holocaust, prolonged mourning, and the structure of the human mind. Poe's "Pym" will be an invaluable resource for students of both contemporary criticism and nineteenth-century American culture. Contributors. John Barth, Susan F. Beegel, J. Lasley Dameron, Grace Farrell, Alexander Hammond, David H. Hirsch, John T. Irwin, J. Gerald Kennedy, David Ketterer, Joan Tyler Mead, Joseph J. Moldenhauer, Carol Peirce, Burton R. Pollin, Alexander G. Rose III, John Carlos Rowe, G. R. Thompson, Bruce I. Weiner

Author : George Edward Woodberry
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The life of Edgar Allan Poe by George Edward Woodberry Pdf

Author : Barbara Cantalupo
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271064369

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Poe and the Visual Arts by Barbara Cantalupo Pdf

Although Edgar Allan Poe is most often identified with stories of horror and fear, there is an unrecognized and even forgotten side to the writer. He was a self-declared lover of beauty who “from childhood’s hour . . . [had] not seen / As others saw.” Poe and the Visual Arts is the first comprehensive study of how Poe’s work relates to the visual culture of his time. It reveals his “deep worship of all beauty,” which resounded in his earliest writing and never entirely faded, despite the demands of his commercial writing career. Barbara Cantalupo examines the ways in which Poe integrated visual art into sketches, tales, and literary criticism, paying close attention to the sculptures and paintings he saw in books, magazines, and museums while living in Philadelphia and New York from 1838 until his death in 1849. She argues that Poe’s sensitivity to visual media gave his writing a distinctive “graphicality” and shows how, despite his association with the macabre, his enduring love of beauty and knowledge of the visual arts richly informed his corpus.

Author : J. Gerald Kennedy,Scott Peeples
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190641870

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The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allen 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 : J. Gerald Kennedy,Scott Peeples
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Keshia A. Case,Christopher P. Semtner
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0738567140

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Edgar Allan Poe in Richmond by Keshia A. Case,Christopher P. Semtner Pdf

Edgar Allan Poe, the renowned author of tales of mystery and madness, arrived in Richmond in 1810 at the age of one and left the city for the last time just two weeks before his death. Of his 40 years, he lived in Richmond for 13 years--far longer than in any other city. While other cities may claim him, Poe himself boasted in 1841, "I am a Virginian . . . for I have resided all my life, until within the last few years, in Richmond." It was in Richmond that Poe was orphaned at the age of two and where he was reared in the home of the tobacco exporter John Allan. In this city, the young Poe first fell in love, wrote his earliest poetry, began his career in journalism, and married his 13- year-old cousin.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015078051334

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The American Bibliopolist by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Howard Raymond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082362611

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Life and Letters of John Howard Raymond by John Howard Raymond Pdf

Author : John E. Reilly,John Carl Miller,University of Virginia. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Manuscripts, American
ISBN : UCSC:32106011032080

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John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection at the University of Virginia by John E. Reilly,John Carl Miller,University of Virginia. Library Pdf

Author : Dawn B. Sova
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438108421

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Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe by Dawn B. Sova Pdf

Examines the life and career of Edgar Allan Poe including synopses of many of his works, biographies of family and friends, a discussion of Poe's influence on other writers, and places that influenced his writing.

Author : Ronald C. Harvey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134828739

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The Critical History of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Ronald C. Harvey Pdf

The Critical History of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym: A Dialogue with Unreason traces the complex, scattered criticism of Poe's most anomalous work, as it has steadily grown in prominence to a central position in the study of Poe and American literature. The winding route the criticism of Pym has charted, as convoluted as the narrative itself, has been a history of disagreement at almost every level at which critics and scholars read texts--including the nature and genre of the work, the seriousness or levity of the author's intent, and its stature as a work of genius, hackwork, or something in between. The unique set of thematic and narrative problems the work poses has eluded every hermeneutic structure brought against it so far, consistently undermining the very reading strategies it seems to invite. The only comprehensive critical history and bibliography of Pym, this study fills a large hole Poe scholars have long felt, as it analyzes the ways in which critics and critical camps have attempted to confront, rationalize, contain, or evade its novel and disturbing features. In the process, the criticism is correlated with the popular reception and the international response. Because literary history has entangled no author with his work more than Poe, ultimately this book is as much a study of Poe as of Pym. At every point, therefore, this study embeds the critical response to Pym in the history of Poe studies in general, as well as in the larger context of American literary theory and history. Includes bibliography and index.

Author : Joseph Parker Norris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044022413314

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Shakespearian Gossip by Joseph Parker Norris Pdf