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

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Williams, Michael J. S. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 1988.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Fictional works.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Language.
Language and languages.
Fantasy fiction, American.
Criticism and interpretation.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Fantasy fiction, American > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 and reader as a struggle for authority, on his awareness of the displacement of an "authorial writing self" by a "self as it is written," and on his debunking of the redemptive properties of the romantic symbol.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (201 pages).
ISBN:9780822381495

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