ISBN:
9780190641894
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 860 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
[Oxford handbooks online
Series Statement:
Literature]
Series Statement:
Oxford handbooks online
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Oxford handbook of Edgar Allan Poe
DDC:
818.309
Keywords:
Poe, Edgar Allan Criticism and interpretation
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Poe, Edgar Allan
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Poe, Edgar Allan ; 1809-1849 ; Criticism and interpretation
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Poe, Edgar Allan 1809-1849
Abstract:
No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated, read, and studied, he occupies an iconic place in global culture. Such acclaim would have gratified Poe, who deliberately wrote for "the world at large" and mocked the provincialism of strictly nationalistic themes. Partly for this reason, early literary historians cast Poe as an outsider, regarding his dark fantasies as extraneous to American life and experience. Only in the 20th century did Poe finally gain a prominent place in the national canon. New models of interpretation have excited fresh debates about his essential genius, his subversive imagination, his cultural insight, and his ultimate impact, urging an expansive reconsideration of his literary achievement.
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190641870.001.0001
URL:
URL des Erstveröffentlichers
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