The Selected Writings of Edgar Allen Poe (NCE): A Norton Critical Edition: 0

Poe, Edgar Allan

ISBN 10: 0393972852 / ISBN 13: 9780393972856

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GOR006803471

Inhaltsangabe:

In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text.“Backgrounds and Contexts” includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe’s prolific but short career, among them reviews, prefaces, and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic pieces dealing with Transcendentalism and alternative romanticism, sciences of the mind, sensation fiction, and the South and slavery.Fourteen judiciously selected critical essays address Poe’s poetry, fiction, politics, and psychology. Contributors include Floyd Stovall, Robert C. McLean, Richard Wilbur, James W. Gargano, Joseph J. Moldenhauer, Paul John Eakin, Grace Farrell, Liahna Klenman Babener, Barton Levi St. Armand, Joseph N. Riddel, J. Gerald Kennedy, John Carlos Rowe, Terence Whalen, and John T. Irwin.A Selected Bibliography is also included.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) wrote tales of the macabre, and invented or contributed to inventing the detective and science fiction genres.

G.R. Thompson is Professor of English at Purdue University. He has published several studies of Edgar Allan Poe, including Poe's Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales, Essays and Reviews of Edgar Allan Poe, Romantic Arabesque, Contemporary Theory, and Postmodernism and the Library of America edition of Poe's Essays and Reviews.

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Titel: The Selected Writings of Edgar Allen Poe (...
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good