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The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe
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.
Herman Melville
Melville's passion for things astronomical is visible throughout his canon. Zimmerman places Melville's many astronomical citations within the thematic context of the works in which they appear and within the larger cultural and historical context of nineteenth-century studies. In addition he provides a comprehensive catalogue of every reference to astronomy, its practitioners, and related topics in Melville's works. Herman Melville: Stargazer will be of great interest to scholars and students of American literature as well as those interested in the relationship between science and literature.
Edgar Allan Poe
This book locates Poe firmly within the science and pseudoscience of his time to demonstrate how Poe's theories of min and his depiction of psychological illnesses occasionally anticipate modern insights and therapies.
Dead to the World
When the small Middle American town of Colby finds itself engulfed in a world-wide zombie apocalypse, the local police force rushes to protect the helpless citizens. But soon they discover that they are hopelessly overwhelmed and outnumbered. When the sociopathic sheriff of their neighboring city decides to sacrifice them to save himself, Troy, Deke, Frank and the surviving officers find that the living are sometimes worse than the undead.
Poe, Queerness, and the End of Time
This book builds upon recent theoretical approaches that define queerness as more of a temporal orientation than a sexual one to explore how Edgar Allan Poe's literary works were frequently invested in imagining lives that contemporary readers can understand as queer, as they stray outside of or aggressively reject normative life paths, including heterosexual romance, marriage, and reproduction, and emphasize individuals' present desires over future plans. The book's analysis of many of Poe's best-known works, including "The Raven," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Black Cat," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," show that his attraction to the liberation of queerness is accompanied by demonstrations of extreme anxiety about the potentially terrifying consequences of non-normative choices. While Poe never resolved the conflicts in his thinking, this book argues that this compelling imaginative tension between queerness and temporal normativity is crucial to understanding his canon.
Edgar Allan Poe's the Tell-tale Heart and Other Stories
Presents a collection of critical essays on Poe's novel, The tell-tale heart, arranged chronologically in the order of their original publication.
Exploring the Facets of Revenge
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2012. The present book assesses the multifaceted phenomenon of revenge and tries to open a hatch to the human comprehension of vengeance, its roots, role and functions in philosophy, history, societies and literature. It introduces studies as they were presented at the Inter-Disciplinary.Net's 2nd Global Conference on Revenge, which took place in July, 2011 at Mansfield College in Oxford University.
Edgar Allan Poe in Context
Spend the holidays with the Master of the Macabre
Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction
In many fictional narratives, the progression of the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs, at a hidden and deeper level, throughout the text. In this volume, Dan Shen systematically investigates how stylistic analysis is indispensable for uncovering this covert progression through rhetorical narrative criticism. The book brings to light the covert progressions in works by the American writers Edgar Allan Poe, Stephan Crane and Kate Chopin and British writer Katherine Mansfield.
Poe's Perfect Crimes
The genius of Edgar Allan Poe extends far beyond his groundbreaking creation of Auguste Dupin, which laid the foundation for detective fiction. What remains little known is that Poe envisioned an even more sophisticated form of the genre. Works in this form take an innovative approach, allowing the reader, rather than a fictional detective, to uncover and solve hidden murders. In 1844, as the Dupin stories concluded, Poe published two lesser-known works, "Thou Art the Man" and "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains." These stories reflect his ambition to engage readers in a game of wits with himself. This study endeavors to rise to his challenge and unravel the perfect crimes--hidden for nearly two centuries--within these tales. As we delve deeper, another mystery arises: "What is analysis?" By examining Dupin's secrets to successful analysis and contrasting them with the failures of the narrators in stories like "The Black Cat" and "The Fall of the House of Usher," this book seeks to unlock Poe's fundamental mystery of analysis.
