Edgar Allan Poe : selected poetry, tales, and essays : authoritative texts with essays on three critical controversies / edited by Jared Gardner, Elizabeth Hewitt.

Author/creator Poe, Edgar Allan
Other author Gardner, Jared editor.
Other author Hewitt, Elizabeth, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoBoston : Bedford/St. Martins, c2016.
Descriptionxvii, 567 p. ; 21 cm.
Subjects

Uniform titleWorks. Selections
Portion of title Selected poetry, tales, and essays : authoritative texts with essays on three critical controversies
SeriesCase studies in critical controversy
Case studies in critical controversy. ^A467646
Contents pt. 1. Life of Edgar Allan Poe -- POETRY: Tamerlane -- The Sleeper -- The City in the Sea -- To Helen -- Lenore -- Israfel -- The Raven -- To Marie Louise -- Annabel Lee -- For Annie -- TALES: Metzengerstein -- Berenice -- Ligeia -- How to write a Blackwood article -- The man that was used up -- The fall of the house of Usher -- William Wilson -- The man of the crowd -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- The oval portrait -- The pit and the pendulum -- The tell-tale heart -- The black cat -- The purloined letter -- The imp of the perverse -- The cask of amontillado -- Hop-frog -- ESSAYS: Some secrets of the magazine prison-house -- The philosophy of composition -- pt. 2. Why study critical controversies about the work of Edgar Allan Poe? -- The controversy over aesthetics and the literary marketplace; or, Is Poe a literary genius or a pop-culture hack? -- The controversy over race; or, what did Poe have to say about African Americans and slavery? -- The controversy over gender and sexuality; or, why is Poe so obsessed with dead women? -- How to write about critical controversy over the work of Edgar Allan Poe.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN9781457629327 paperback
ISBN1457629321 paperback

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Joyner General Stacks PS2602 .G37 2016 ✔ Available Place Hold