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050 00 $aPS2638$b.P436 2003
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100 1 $aPeeples, Scott.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98056195
245 14 $aThe afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe /$cScott Peeples.
260 $aRochester, NY :$bCamden House,$c2004.
300 $axii, 199 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aStudies in American literature and culture. Literary criticism in perspective
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [165]-188) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Man That Was Used Up: Poe's Place in American Literature, 1849-1909 -- $g2.$tA Dream Within a Dream: Poe and Psychoanalysis -- $g3.$tOut of Space, Out of Time: From Early Formalism to Deconstruction -- $g4.$tThe Man of the Crowd: The Socio-Historical Poe -- $g5.$tLionizing: Poe as Cultural Signifier -- $tAfterword: Loss of Breath: Writing Poe's Last Days.
520 1 $a"Controversies abound in studies of Edgar Allan Poe. From the time of Poe's death well into the twentieth century, partisans debated the issue of his character: was he an alcoholic? drug addict? pathological liar? necrophile? In the 1920s and 30s, psychoanalytic critics sought to divorce the study of Poe from Victorian moral concerns, but in the process made scandalous claims by linking Poe's dreamlike stories to his personality." "The status of Poe's literary productions was similarly disputed; dismissed in the New Critical textbooks of Brooks and Warren and left out of F. O. Mathiessen's canon-forming American Renaissance, Poe was, during the same period, championed by poets such as William Carlos Williams and Allen Tate. Engaging the issues raised by feminism and New Historicism, recent scholars have debated the meaning and significance of Poe's representations of race, class, and gender, often returning to the character issue: how racist and misogynist was he, and how important are those questions to understanding his work? Finally, how have the seemingly countless plays, films, novels, comic books, and pop music experiments based on his image and works intertwined with academic study of Poe?" "The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe examines these and other controversies, shedding light on broader issues of canon formation, the role of biography in literary study, and the importance of integrating various, even conflicting interpretations into one's own reading of a literary work. This book will be of great interest to Poe scholars, both those who have been a part of the literary battles described above and newcomers to the field, who can use the book as a guide to the field of Poe studies. It also provides a case study in literary criticism from the late nineteenth to the beginning of the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aPoe, Edgar Allan,$d1809-1849$xCriticism and interpretation$xHistory.
650 0 $aFantasy literature, American$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.
830 0 $aStudies in American literature and culture.$pLiterary criticism in perspective.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00036199
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip047/2003017325.html
852 00 $bglx$hPS2638$i.P436 2003