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Poe and the subversion of American literature : satire, fantasy, critique /
"Argues that Poe offers an alternative to American literature through his satirical critique of U.S. national culture and his projection of a postnational imagination"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Poetics of Descent; 1 Subterranean Noises; Undercurrents of American thought; The man of the street; The diddler's grin; 2 A Nomad in a Land of Settlers; The early Poe: Nomadic peripety; The mature Poe: Unsettling movement; The late Poe: Extravagant trajectories; 3 Points of No Return; The return of the personal narrative; "Of my country and of my family I have little to say"; Irreversible descent; Uncharted territories; 4 The Nightmare of the Unknowable; The legitimate sources of terror.
- Terror as anti-epistemicUnfathomability; 5 Captivating the Reader; Perverse designs; "To be appreciated, you must be read"; The apparatus of capture; 6 The Perverse Originality of Literature Proper; True originality; Generic ambiguities; 7 The Cosmopolitan's Uncanny Duplicity; At sea in the city; The Doppelgänger's mirror image; 8 Extra Mœnia Flammantia Mundi: Satire, Fantasy, and the Critic's Laughter; Phantasy-pieces; The laugh of Edgar Allan Poe; Conclusion: Premature Burials; Bibliography; Index.