Selected tales and critical writings
Poe, Edgar Allan
Selected tales and critical writings by Edgar Allan Poe ; edited by Sathyaraj Venkatesan - New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan, ©2017 - viii, 279 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Tales
1. The Purloined Letter
2. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
3. The Tell-Tale Heart
4. The Cask of Amontillado
5. The Fall of the House of Usher
6. The Black Cat
7. The Masque of the Red Death
8. The Pit and the Pendulum
9. The Imp of the Perverse
10. The Oval Portrait
11. A Descent into the Maelstrom Critical Writings
1. Letter to Mr. B—
2. Twice-Told Tales: A Review
3. The Philosophy of Composition
4. The Poetic Principle
Notes and Annotations
Critical Essays
Pregnant Women and Envious Men in “Morella,” “Berenice,” “Ligeia,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Dawn Keetley
The Permanence of Poe
James M. Hutchisson
Selected Bibliograph
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most enigmatic and controversial writers of American literature. Poe’s works continue to engage and baffle readers more than a century after they broke new ground in American letters. This book presents a meticulously edited and annotated selection of Poe’s tales and critical writings. The detailed introduction offers a critical survey of Poe’s oeuvre, while employing contemporary critical perspectives to contextualize and analyze key texts and thematic concerns. Supplemented with erudite critical studies by Dawn Keetley and James M. Hutchisson, this collection brings the writer and his contexts closer to the reader.
9789386296672
English Language and Literature
General Books
808.66 / POE-S
Selected tales and critical writings by Edgar Allan Poe ; edited by Sathyaraj Venkatesan - New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan, ©2017 - viii, 279 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Tales
1. The Purloined Letter
2. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
3. The Tell-Tale Heart
4. The Cask of Amontillado
5. The Fall of the House of Usher
6. The Black Cat
7. The Masque of the Red Death
8. The Pit and the Pendulum
9. The Imp of the Perverse
10. The Oval Portrait
11. A Descent into the Maelstrom Critical Writings
1. Letter to Mr. B—
2. Twice-Told Tales: A Review
3. The Philosophy of Composition
4. The Poetic Principle
Notes and Annotations
Critical Essays
Pregnant Women and Envious Men in “Morella,” “Berenice,” “Ligeia,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Dawn Keetley
The Permanence of Poe
James M. Hutchisson
Selected Bibliograph
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most enigmatic and controversial writers of American literature. Poe’s works continue to engage and baffle readers more than a century after they broke new ground in American letters. This book presents a meticulously edited and annotated selection of Poe’s tales and critical writings. The detailed introduction offers a critical survey of Poe’s oeuvre, while employing contemporary critical perspectives to contextualize and analyze key texts and thematic concerns. Supplemented with erudite critical studies by Dawn Keetley and James M. Hutchisson, this collection brings the writer and his contexts closer to the reader.
9789386296672
English Language and Literature
General Books
808.66 / POE-S