Purloined Letters

Purloined Letters
Author: Mark H. Silver
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2008-04-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0824831888

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The Purloined Letter

The Purloined Letter
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2019-06-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781072742180

The Purloined Letter is the third of the three stories featuring the detective C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Mystery of Marie Roget. These stories are considered important forerunners of the modern detective story. The method Poe's detective, Dupin, uses to solve the crime was quite innovative. He tried to identify with the criminal and to "think like he would." In May of 1844 Poe wrote to James Russell Lowell that he considered it "perhaps the best of my tales of ratiocination"

The Purloined Poe

The Purloined Poe
Author: John P. Muller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1988
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

In 1956 Jacques Lacan proposed as interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's "Purloined Letter" that at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radically new conception of psychoanalysis. Lacan's far-reaching claims about language and truth provoked a vigorous critique by Jacques Derrida, whose essay in turn has spawned further responses from Barbara Johnson, Jane Gallop, Irene Harvey, Norman Holland, and others. The Purloined Poe brings Poe's story together with these readings to provide, in the words of the editors, "a structured exercuse in the elaboration of textual interpretation. The Purloined Poe reprints the full text of Poe's story, followed by Lacan's "Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter,'" along with extensive commentary by the editors. Marie Bonaparte's and Shoshana Felman's discussions of traditional and contemporary approaches to "psychoanalysing" texts precede Alan Bass's new translation of Derrida's "Purveyor of Truth." The subsequent essays join the Lacan-Derrida debate and offer alternative readings by literary theorists, philosophers, psychologists, and psychoanalysts. The Purloined Poe convenes much of the most important current scholarship on "The Purloined Letter" and presents a rich sampling of poststructuralist discourse.

Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America

Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America
Author: Michael Newbury
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780804728584

Through studies of such writers as Hawthorne, Melville, and Stowe, this book shows how the increased demand for salable entertainment fostered a new consciousness of authorship as a commercial and professional mode of work in the first half of the nineteenth century in America.

A World of Words

A World of Words
Author: Michael J. S. Williams
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2013-07-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0822381494

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.

A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder

A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Author: Brigitte Peucker
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 659
Release: 2012-01-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1444354051

A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder is the first of its kind to engage with this important figure. Twenty-eight essays by an international group of scholars consider this controversial director's contribution to German cinema, German history, gender studies, and auteurship. A fresh collection of original research providing diverse perspectives on Fassbinder’s work in films, television, poetry, and underground theatre. Rainer Werner Fassbinder remains the preeminent filmmaker of the New German Cinema whose brief but prolific body of work spans from the latter half of the 1960s to the artist’s death in 1982. Interrogates Fassbinder’s influence on the seminal ideas of his time: auteurship, identity, race, queer studies, and the cataclysmic events of German twentieth century history Contributions from internationally diverse scholars specializing in film, culture, and German studies. Includes coverage of his key films including: Gods of the Plague (1970), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Martha (1973) (TV), World on a Wire (1973), Effi Briest (1974), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Fox and His Friends (1975), Fear of Fear (1975), Chinese Roulette (1976), In a Year With 13 Moons (1978), Despair (1978), The Third Generation (1979), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (TV), and Querelle (1982).

Writing to the World

Writing to the World
Author: Rachael Scarborough King
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2018-06
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1421425483

Ultimately, Writing to the World is a sophisticated look at the intersection of print and the public sphere.