Edgar Allan Poe as Amateur Psychologist

Edgar Allan Poe as Amateur Psychologist
Author: Brett Zimmerman
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021
Genre: Psychology in literature
ISBN: 9781433184963

"Locating Poe firmly within his Zeitgeist vis-à-vis the science and pseudoscience of the early nineteenth century, Edgar Allan Poe as Amateur Psychologist: A Companion Anthology simultaneously looks back from the 1830s and 40s (when his literary career was at its height) to eighteenth-century theories and sources of information on mental illness, as well as forward to our own time to demonstrate how Poe's dramatizations of psychological diseases occasionally anticipate modern nosological classifications and twenty-first-century forensic research. This interdisciplinary collection is a companion to its predecessor, Zimmerman's Edgar Allan Poe: Amateur Psychologist (2019); it gathers the most important essays by authors-Hungerford, Stauffer, Stern, Bynum, Cleman, Hester and Segir, Phillips, Shackelford, Scheckel, Lloyd-Smith, Whipple, Butler, Uba, Walker, Zimmerman-who employ historicist and history-of-ideas methodologies. Topics include Poe's use of and eventual disillusionment with phrenology; his attitude toward the controversial "moral treatment" of the insane as well as the "insanity defense" and its connection with the new theory of "moral insanity"; the possible sources of his knowledge of theories of mind, psychopathology and related therapies; his evolution as an amateur psychologist; the connection between physiological sickness and mental distress (the psychosomatic); and the ways in which the psychological profiles of his homicidal characters look forward to modern serial killers. This companion anthology represents a significant addition to Poe scholarship and will be of interest not only to Poe specialists but also to students, teachers, and any intelligent reader interested in the history of ideas and the intersection between literature and "mental philosophy.""--

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Brett Zimmerman
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780773528994

Critics have often charged Edgar Allan Poe with sloppy writing. Using stylistics and classical rhetorical theory, Brett Zimmerman demonstrates that Poe was in fact a brilliant and deliberate lexical technician who varied his prose style according to genre and the world views and the mental health or illness of his narrators. Zimmerman breaks new ground in Poe studies by providing a catalogue of three hundred figures of speech and thought in the author's oeuvre, including his tales, personal correspondence, literary criticism, book reviews, and Marginalia. This incisive catalogue of literary and rhetorical terms, presented in alphabetical order and amply illustrated with examples - in addition to close examinations of some of Poe's most important tales - overwhelmingly demonstrates Poe's rhetorical and linguistic dexterity putting a nearly two-hundred-year-old critical debate to rest by showing Poe to be a conscientious craftsman of the highest order.

Leveraging Digital Technology for Preventive Dentistry

Leveraging Digital Technology for Preventive Dentistry
Author: Asanza, Dachel Martínez
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2024-08-26
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

Even in the modern age, oral diseases have a substantial and negative impact on citizens all over the globe. Oral diseases affect nearly half of the global population and represent a significant economic and health burden. As a result, the promotion of oral health and disease prevention information has emerged as one of the most cost-effective strategies in limiting these maladies and treating them should they occur. Leveraging Digital Technology for Preventive Dentistry provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area. It discusses the latest findings in digital technologies for health promotion and oral disease promotion, as well as the behavior of these health actions in the international context. Covering topics such as ethical and legal aspects, preventive dentistry, and biometric studies, this book is an excellent resource for librarians, dentists, dental students and educators, researchers, academicians, and more.

Multilingual Routes in Translation

Multilingual Routes in Translation
Author: Maria Sidiropoulou
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2022-04-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9811904405

This book tackles the interface between translation and pragmatics. It comprises case studies in English, Greek, Russian and Chinese translation practice, which highlight the potential of translation to interact with pragmatics and reshape meaning making in a target language in various pragmatically relevant ways. Fiction and non-fiction genres merge to suggest a rich inventory of interlingual transfer instances which can broaden our perception of what may be shifting in translation transfer. Authors use an emic approach (in addition to an etic one) to confirm results which they often present graphically. The book has a didactic perspective in that it shows how pragmatic awareness can regulate translator behaviour and is also useful in foreign language teaching, because it shows how important implicit knowledge can be, in shaping the message in a foreign language.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Arthur Hobson Quinn
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 872
Release: 1997-11-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780801857300

Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesses, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend, and describes how they both were distorted by prior biographies. "

The Genius of Edgar Allan Poe

The Genius of Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Georges Zayed
Publisher: Schenkman Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1985
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Although all Europe proclaimed Edgar Allan Poe to be one of the literary geniuses of the world, he did not receive recognition in the US until a century after his death. This book is a perceptive investigation into the multiple facets of Poe's genius as a theoretician, critic, storyteller, poet, and philosopher.

Edgar Allan Poe in Context

Edgar Allan Poe in Context
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107009979

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Haunts

Haunts
Author: Douglas Clegg
Publisher: Alkemara Press
Total Pages: 1586
Release: 2021-12-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1944668160

8 Times the Haunting! Gathered together for the first time from bestselling horror and suspense novelist Douglas Clegg, eight supernatural horror novels in one ebook "box set," including: THE HOUR BEFORE DARK NEVERLAND NIGHTMARE HOUSE MISCHIEF THE INFINITE THE ABANDONED AFTERLIFE GOAT DANCE

Goat Dance

Goat Dance
Author: Douglas Clegg
Publisher: Alkemara Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1989-11-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0979686202

From New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg comes a novel of heart-pounding suspense and supernatural horror. What secrets lie within the ancient place known as the Goat Dance? In winter, in the mountains, a darkness envelopes a town...a house on the edge of a lake holds the key to its horrifying secret. A Haunted Lake... Seven-year-old Teddy Amory should have died that winter's day on Clear Lake, when she fell through the ice while skating with her older brother, Jake. But something got inside her that day . . . something terrifying... A Town in Shadows... Nightmarish forces lurk in the mountains of Virginia, and darkness has begun to spread like a shroud over the living. Those long-dead return in nightmares. Does someone – or something -- control these horrifying visions from within the mysterious halls of the Marlowe-Houston House on the edge of Clear Lake? Now a young man named Coffey returns to Pontefract, Virginia, to find the woman he lost – and a town must face its terrifying past as a possessed child threatens to unleash an unspeakable horror. A terrifying chiller of a horror novel from a master of the fiction of nightmares. "Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares...Goat Dance is a dark, mesmerizing delight." - Robert R. McCammon, author of Swan Song. "Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby."-- Dean Koontz. "Douglas Clegg knows exactly what scares us, and he knows just how to twist those fears into hair-raising chills..." - Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series. Books by Douglas Clegg Afterlife The Hour Before Dark Breeder The Children's Hour Nightmare House Mischief Bad Karma Red Angel Night Cage The Necromancer Purity Dark of the Eye The Words Wild Things Praise for Douglas Clegg's Fiction "Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation." -- Bentley Little, author of The Policy "Clegg delivers!"-- John Saul, bestselling author of Faces of Fear and The Devil's Labyrinth. "A master of the genre. Absolutely thrilling! Douglas Clegg is the future of dark fantasy."-- Sherrilyn Kenyon, New York Times bestselling author of the Dark-Hunters. "Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction." -- Peter Straub, author of the New York Times Bestseller Black House (with Stephen King) "Clegg is one of the best!" -- Richard Laymon

Psychology in Edgar Allan Poe

Psychology in Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Gerardo Del Guercio
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2019-08-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3832549404

This collection offers six critical essays on the topic of psychology in Edgar Allan Poe. It came together as a response to a visible absence of this subject in recent scholarship. The volume presents Edgar Allan Poe as one of the pioneers in psychology, who often anticipated major theoretical trends and ideas in psychology in his incessant explorations of the relationship between behavior and the psyche. Scrutinizing serial killer narratives, obsessive narratives through Jungian unconscious, Lacanian Das Ding, doppelgängers, intersubjectivity, and the interrelationship between the material world and imaginative faculties, the essays reveal the richness and the complexity of Poe's work and its pertinence to contemporary culture. With contributions by Gerardo Del Guercio, Phillip Grayson, Sean J. Kelly, Rachel McCoppin, Tatiana Prorokova, and Karen J. Renner.