Poe's Critical Theory: THE MAJOR DOCUMENTS - Hardcover

Poe, Edgar Allan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252031237 ISBN 13: 9780252031236

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2008

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Edgar Allan Poe's reputation as an enduring and influential American literary critic rests mainly upon the pieces in this edition. Editors Stuart and Susan F. Levine provide reading texts, detailed explanatory footnotes, variant readings, and introductions to show context. They also face frankly the contradictions in Poe's critical opinions. Critical Theory highlights examples of conflicting ideas and suggests the reasons they are present.
What was consistent in Poe's work was not a single theory, but rather wit, playfulness, concern for the strong effect, a bin of recyclable allusions, anecdotes and quotations, and a craftsman's discipline. Poe's writing on theory is of a piece with his fiction, poetry, and journalism. The Levines explain how these critical statements also tie tightly to the social, political, economic, and technological history of the world in which Poe lived.

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Stuart Levine is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Kansas. Susan F. Levine was an assistant dean of the Graduate School at the University of Kansas. Their past collaborations have included scholarly editions of Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and Poe’s Eureka.

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• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0252031237
• ISBN 13: 9780252031236
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Herausgeber: Levine Stuart, Levine Susan F.
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