The Death Of A Beautiful Woman Is Unquestionably The Most Poetical Topic In The World Edgar Allan Poe

Author : Elisabeth Bronfen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0719038278

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Over Her Dead Body by Elisabeth Bronfen Pdf

In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating detail by Elisabeth Bronfen. Her examples range from Carmen to Little Nell, from Wuthering Heights to Vertigo, from Snow White to Frankenstein. The text is richly illustrated throughout with thirty-seven paintings and photographs. The argument that this book presents is that narrative and visual representations of death can be read as symptoms of our culture and because the feminine body is culturally constructed as the superlative site of "other" and "not me", culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004456846

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Gender I-Deology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 025206125X

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The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe brings together, in one convenient edition, all of the information a reader needs to understand Poe's stories. Readable, attractive, and accessible to a general reader or student, it also provides a useful resource for the scholar and specialist. Stuart Levine and Susan Levine tracked down information that is often highly specialized and hard to come by through an extensive program of literary sleuthing--an investigation that took him through the hundreds of places where scholars make their contributions to knowledge.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3MD2

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Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0806908203

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Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

A collection of thirteen poems and eight prose selections from larger works.

Author : Michael J. S. Williams
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0822307804

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A World of Words by Michael J. S. Williams Pdf

A World of Words offers a new look at the degree to which language itself is a topic of Poe's texts. Stressing the ways his fiction reflects on the nature of its own signifying practices, Williams sheds new light on such issues as Poe's characterization of the relationship between author and reader as a struggle for authority, on his awareness of the displacement of an "authorial writing self" by a "self as it is written," and on his debunking of the redemptive properties of the romantic symbol.

Author : Tony Magistrale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313007132

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Student Companion to Edgar Allan Poe by Tony Magistrale Pdf

The contributions of Edgar Allan Poe have withstood the test of time; his best poems and fiction are more popular and carry greater significance now than they did during his own era. This highly readable introduction to the life, times, and major works of Poe offers fresh interpretations of timeless masterpieces like The Raven and The Purloined Letter. Carefully considering important thematic elements as well as genre, this book organizes the works of Poe into four significant groupings: the poetry, Vampiric love stories, tales of psychological terror, and the detective stories. Close readings are given for a selection of the most important works that represent Poe's canon of writings, including the chilling Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat. This introductory study to Edgar Allan Poe begins with a concise biographical chapter that explores Poe's troubled experiences. The Literary Heritage chapter chronicles Poe's influence on other writers, artists, and filmmakers who followed. This work examines the major poems from Poe's canon, with special attention to those works that are most often taught and anthologized. Poe's most famous tales of terror and revenge are juxtaposed because they all revolve around murders and the elements of terror associated with the act of killing. Likewise, his love stories are brought together in a chapter that deals with vampirisim and gender. The final chapter, The Origins of the Detective Tale, examines Poe's tales of ratiocination, and traces the evolution of many popular culture super sleuths to Poe's Dupin. A selective bibliography of biographical and critical works on Poe, including contemporary reviews, completes this thorough volume. Students, general readers, and fans of all things Gothic will enjoy the fascinating insights this volume offers.

Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781461660958

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Edgar Allan Poe by Jeffrey Meyers Pdf

This biography of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), a giant of American literature who invented both the horror and detective genres, is a portrait of extremes: a disinherited heir, a brilliant but exploited author and editor, a man who veered radically from temperance to rampant debauchery, and an agnostic who sought a return to religion at the end of his life. Acclaimed biographer Jeffrey Meyers explores the writer's turbulent life and career, including his marriage and multiple, simultaneous romances, his literary feuds, and his death at an early age under bizarre and troubling circumstances.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307781406

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Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

A new selection for the NEA’s Big Read program A compact selection of Poe’s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program. This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller’s art as “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and such unforgettable poems as “The Raven,” “The Bells,” and “Annabel Lee.” Poe is widely credited with pioneering the detective story, represented here by “The Purloined Letter,” “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Also included is his essay “The Philosophy of Composition,” in which he lays out his theory of how good writers write, describing how he constructed “The Raven” as an example.

Author : Brod Bagert
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1402754728

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Poetry for Young People: Edgar Allan Poe by Brod Bagert Pdf

A collection of poems and selection from Edgar Allan Poe's stories, accompanied by mood-setting colour drawings and notes.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433069354276

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The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

Author : Debra Mcarthur
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766073425

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Reading and Interpreting the Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Debra Mcarthur Pdf

Edgar Allan Poe’s poems and short stories may be familiar to students, but the life that inspired these tales may still remain a mystery. This text provides readers with an understanding of how Poe’s writing was influenced by the time period in which he lived and the circumstances of his tragic life. Students will learn how to ponder, interpret, and comprehend Poe’s work through critical analysis of his themes, word choice, and style and through direct quotations from Poe himself.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788728414507

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The Philosophy of Composition by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

This fascinating literary essay, written by the famous American writer and poet, Edgar Allan Poe, explores the mystique of artistic creation. By using his renowned poem ‘The Raven’ as an example, Poe explains how good writers write well, concluding that brevity, ‘unity of effect’ and a logical method are the most important factors. Taking the reader through the deliberate choices made when writing the poem, the author also discusses theme, setting, sound, and the importance of refrain. ‘The Philosophy of Composition’ (1846) is a perfect read for literary scholars, writers, and fans of Poe. Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, best known for his gothic, macabre tales that include ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’, and ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’. One of America’s first short story writers, Poe is considered the inventor of detective fiction and a key figure in both horror and science fiction. His work had a profound impact on American and international literature and he was one of the first American writers to earn international recognition. His other notable works include ‘The Raven and other Poem’s’, (1845) ‘The Cask of Amontillado’, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, and ‘The Tell-Take Heart’. With many of his stories adapted for TV and screen, including the gothic 2014 film ‘Stonehearst Asylum’, starring Kate Beckinsale, Michael Caine, and Ben Kingsley, Poe continues to influence literature, film, and television to this day.

Author : Ms Lucy Frank
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409489672

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Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing and Culture by Ms Lucy Frank Pdf

From the famous deathbed scene of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Little Eva to Mark Twain's parodically morbid poetess Emmeline Grangerford, a preoccupation with human finitude informs the texture of nineteenth-century US writing. This collection traces the vicissitudes of this cultural preoccupation with the subject of death and examines how mortality served paradoxically as a site on which identity and subjectivity were productively rethought. Contributors from North America and the United Kingdom, representing the fields of literature, theatre history, and American studies, analyze the sexual, social, and epistemological boundaries implicit in nineteenth-century America's obsession with death, while also seeking to give a voice to the strategies by which these boundaries were interrogated and displaced. Topics include race- and gender-based investigations into the textual representation of death, imaginative constructions and re-constructions of social practice with regard to loss and memorialisation, and literary re-conceptualisations of death forced by personal and national trauma.

Author : Brett Zimmerman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780773572911

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Edgar Allan Poe by Brett Zimmerman Pdf

Zimmerman breaks new ground in Poe studies by providing a catalogue of three hundred figures of speech and thought in the author's oeuvre, including his tales, personal correspondence, literary criticism, book reviews, and marginalia. This incisive catalogue of literary and rhetorical terms, presented in alphabetical order and amply illustrated with examples - in addition to close examinations of some of Poe's most important tales - overwhelmingly demonstrates Poe's rhetorical and linguistic dexterity, putting a nearly two-hundred-year-old critical debate to rest by showing Poe to be a conscientious craftsman of the highest order.