Edgar Allan Poe / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Criticism and interpretation.

Poe, Edgar Allan.

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

Updated edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Chelsea House Publishers, [2006]

Contents:

Strange fits : Poe and Wordsworth on the nature of poetic language / Barbara Johnson

Poe's art of transformation : The cask of Amontillado in its cultural context / David S. Reynolds

A Platonic dialogue : Eureka as detective story?; Marked with a letter; The tetractys and the line of beauty; Letter as nodal point; A shared structure; Thematizing the acts of reading / John T. Irwin

Detective fiction, psychoanalysis, and the analytic sublime / Shawn Rosenheim

Black and white and re(a)d all over : The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym / Scott Peeples

"Reading encrypted but persistent" : the gothic of reading and Poe's "The fall of the house of Usher" / Harriet Hustis

Poe's philosophy of amalgamation : reading racism in the tales / Leland S. Person

Ligeia : "her large and luminous orbs" / Dorothea E. von Mücke

House of mirrors : Edgar Allan Poe's "The fall of the house of Usher" / John H. Timmerman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-192) and index.

ISBN:

0791085678

OCLC:

61703934

Publisher Number:

9780791085677