New Essays on Poe's Major Tales (The American Novel) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521422434 ISBN 13: 9780521422437

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

In his introduction to New Essays on Poe's Major Tales Kenneth Silverman sets forth Poe's theory of the tale, and examines recurrent motifs in his fiction. The essays that follow present a variety of critical approaches and illuminate different facets of Poe's complex imagination, concentrating on such famous tales as The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Cat, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue. In interpreting one or a few of Poe's classic tales, the critics also illuminate such broader issues as his depiction of women, his theory of knowledge, his understanding of perversity, his relation to popular culture, and his preoccupation with death.

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Book Description:

A variety of critical approaches illuminate different facets of Poe's complex imagination by concentrating on such famous tales as The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Cat and The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

Review:

A variety of critical approaches illuminate different facets of Poe's complex imagination by concentrating on such famous tales as "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Black Cat" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." -- Book Description

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0521422434
• ISBN 13: 9780521422437
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Silverman Kenneth