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A World of Words : Language and Displacement in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe /

A World of Words offers a new look at the degree to which language itself is a topic of Poe's texts. Stressing the ways his fiction reflects on the nature of its own signifying practices, Williams sheds new light on such issues as Poe's characterization of the relationship between author a...

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Autor principal: Williams, Michael J. S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1988.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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