The Oxford Handbook Of Edgar Allan Poe

Author : J. Gerald Kennedy,Scott Peeples
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : 44,6 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 : José R. Ibáñez Ibáñez,Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031099861

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Retrospective Poe by José R. Ibáñez Ibáñez,Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan Pdf

This book analyzes a range of Edgar Allan Poe’s writing, focusing on new readings that engage with classical and (post)modern studies of his work and the troubling literary relationship that he had with T.S. Eliot. Whilst the book examines Poe’s influence in Spain, and how his figure has been marketed to young and adult Spanish reading audiences, it also explores the profound impact that Poe had on other audiences, such as in America, Greece, and Japan, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The essays attest to Poe’s well-deserved reputation, his worldwide legacy, and his continued presence in global literature. This book will appeal particularly to university teachers, Poe scholars, graduate students, and general readers interested in Poe’s oeuvre.

Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780195187274

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The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature by Kevin J. Hayes Pdf

Organized primarily in terms of genre, this handbook includes original research on key concepts, as well as analysis of interesting texts from throughout colonial America. Separate chapters are devoted to literary genres of great importance at the time of their composition that have been neglected in recent decades.

Author : Scott Peeples
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1571133577

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The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe by Scott Peeples Pdf

Scott Peeples here examines the many controversies surrounding the work and life of Poe, shedding light on such issues as the relevance of literary criticism to teaching, the role of biography in literary study, and the importance of integrating various interpretations into one's own reading of literature.

Author : Scott Peeples
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691182407

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The Man of the Crowd by Scott Peeples Pdf

"We tend to think of Edgar Allan Poe as a loner, living in a world of his own imagination and detached from his physical environment. Poe might seem like a Nowhere Man, but of course he was always somewhere - just not at the same address for very long. The Man of the Crowd chronicles Poe's rootless life, focusing on the American cities where he lived the longest: Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York. The Poe who emerges in The Man of the Crowd is a man whose outlook and career were shaped by his physical environments - mostly urban and almost entirely American. His career was tied closely to the rise of American magazines, so he lived in the cities that produced them and wrote not just stories and poems but journalism and editorials with an urban magazine-reading public in mind. For years he witnessed urban slavery up close, living and working within a few blocks of slave jails and auction houses in Richmond. In Philadelphia, he saw an orderly, expanding city struggling to contain its own violent propensities. And at a time when suburbs were just beginning to offer an alternative to crowded city dwellings, Poe tried living cheaply on the then-rural Upper West Side of Manhattan and, later, in what is now the Bronx. Though Poe rarely provided "local color" in his fiction, his urban mysteries and claustrophobic tales of troubled minds and abused bodies reflect his experience living among soldiers, slaves, and immigrants"--

Author : J. Gerald Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1074495022

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A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe by J. Gerald Kennedy Pdf

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
ISBN : 5949620291

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Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0195092627

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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates Pdf

This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.

Author : Joakim Wrethed
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783031411113

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Gothic Hauntology by Joakim Wrethed Pdf

This book provides a theoretically informed account of Gothic Hauntology. It is distinctive foremost in two ways. It shows hauntology at work in modern as well as older gothic narratives and it has a unique focus on everyday gothic as well as everyday hauntology. The chapters perform a historical circle going from Munro to Poe and then back again, offering novel readings of works by well-known authors that are contextualized under the umbrella of the theme. Anchored in a well-known topic and genre, but with a specific phenomenological framework, this book will be of interest to both students and more advanced scholars.

Author : Aldona Kobus,Łukasz Muniowski
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476679624

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Sex, Death and Resurrection in Altered Carbon by Aldona Kobus,Łukasz Muniowski Pdf

The 2018 Netflix series Altered Carbon is a vital contribution to the cyberpunk renaissance, among such titles as Snowpiercer or Blade Runner 2049. This collection of new essays answers the question: is this increasing popularity of cyberpunk a sign of recognition of the genre's transgressive aspects, such as a stark critique of capitalism, or is it the opposite--a sign of the genre's failure to successfully criticize modernity? The contributors consider the series as taking on current issues, from a critique of neoliberalism, through the ethical aspects of biotechnology, up to thanatology. They provoke questions about what it means to be human in a world in which death does not exist. Essays evaluate the surging popularity of the series and cyberpunk at large from a variety of critical perspectives, shedding new light on a challenging and inventive series.

Author : Emron Esplin,Margarida Vale de Gato
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611462593

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Anthologizing Poe by Emron Esplin,Margarida Vale de Gato Pdf

This collection explores how anthologizers and editors of Edgar Allan Poe play an integral role in shaping our conceptions of Poe as the author we have come to recognize, revere, and critique today. In the spheres of literature and popular culture, Poe wields more global influence than any other U.S. author. This influence, however, cannot be attributed solely to the quality of Poe’s texts or to his compellingly tragic biography. Rather, his continued prominence as a writer owes much to the ways that Poe has been interpreted, portrayed, and packaged by an extensive group of mediators ranging from anthologizers, editors, translators, and fellow writers to literary critics, filmmakers, musicians, and illustrators. In this volume, the work of presenting Poe’s texts for public consumption becomes a fascinating object of study in its own right, one that highlights the powerful and often overlooked influence of those who have edited, anthologized, translated, and adapted the author’s writing over the past 170 years.

Author : Philip Edward Phillips
Publisher : Springer
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319967882

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Poe and Place by Philip Edward Phillips Pdf

This collection of fifteen original essays and one original poem explores the theme of “place” in the life, works, and afterlife of Edgar A. Poe (1809-1849). Poe and Place argues that “place” is an important critical category through which to understand this classic American author in new and interesting ways. The geographical “places” examined include the cities in which Poe lived and worked, specific locales included in his fictional works, imaginary places featured in his writings, physical and imaginary places and spaces from which he departed and those to which he sought to return, places he claimed to have gone, and places that have embraced him as their own. The geo-critical and geo-spatial perspectives in the collection offer fresh readings of Poe and provide readers new vantage points from which to approach Poe’s life, literary works, aesthetic concerns, and cultural afterlife.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:818014047

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe ; Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199720156

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The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature by Kevin J. Hayes Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature is a major new reference work that provides the best single-volume source of original scholarship on early American literature. Comprised of twenty-seven chapters written by experts in their fields, this work presents an authoritative, in-depth, and up-to-date assessment of a crucial area within literary studies. Organized primarily in terms of genre, the chapters include original research on key concepts, as well as analysis of interesting texts from throughout colonial America. Separate chapters are devoted to literary genres of great importance at the time of their composition that have been neglected in recent decades, such as histories, promotion literature, and scientific writing. New interpretations are offered on the works of Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards and Dr. Alexander Hamilton while lesser known figures are also brought to light. Newly vital areas like print culture and natural history are given full treatment. As with other Oxford Handbooks, the contributors cover the field in a comprehensive yet accessible way that is suitable for those wishing to gain a good working knowledge of an area of study and where it's headed.