Fables of Mind: An Inquiry Into Poe's FictionOxford University Press, 1987 - Počet stran: 273 This revisionist study of Poe's fiction concentrates on works generally neglected by Poe critics. Operating in reverse chronological order, Joan Dayan begins with a close reading of Poe's Eureka, subtitled "Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe" and uses this cosmology to examine Poe's method in creating his fiction. This "unreadable" work, she argues, best exemplifies that method, for in his work, the bizarre, apparently nonsensical, and the most stylistically jarring lapses are the truest exercises of his fiction-making powers. In Eureka, Poe alternates between the roles of skeptic and believer, and the very question of cognition--not what we see, but how we see--comes to dominate his work. Fables of Mind makes the unprecedented argument that the issue of convertability--of the material universe, of the landscape, of the identity of woman--is the key to Poe's thought and the plot of his fiction. |
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... ground whereby the American pioneer can replace the European seeker after " picturesque- ness . " The narrator of this landscape sketch of the Philadelphia environs turns his back on those places the " British tourists " visit , " the ...
... ground whereby the American pioneer can replace the European seeker after " picturesque- ness . " The narrator of this landscape sketch of the Philadelphia environs turns his back on those places the " British tourists " visit , " the ...
Strana 122
... ground , with a faint green cord running zig - zag throughout " ( 1339 ) . As rigorously de- fined and as intricate as a well - etched Poe landscape , the parlor's ground prepares us for the genius loci — the dominant spirit in this ...
... ground , with a faint green cord running zig - zag throughout " ( 1339 ) . As rigorously de- fined and as intricate as a well - etched Poe landscape , the parlor's ground prepares us for the genius loci — the dominant spirit in this ...
Strana 238
... ground move beneath us . " " A moment destroys the illusion of a whole life ; our deceptive faith in the repose of nature vanishes , and we feel transported , as it were , into a realm of unknown destructive forces . Every sound - the ...
... ground move beneath us . " " A moment destroys the illusion of a whole life ; our deceptive faith in the repose of nature vanishes , and we feel transported , as it were , into a realm of unknown destructive forces . Every sound - the ...
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Introduction 39 | 5 |
A New World of Philosophy | 19 |
The Poet in the Garden | 80 |
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