The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Tales
(Sprache: Englisch)
Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales are classics of horror fiction, and created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. This selection places the most popular against travel narrative, essays, and political satires.
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Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales are classics of horror fiction, and created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. This selection places the most popular against travel narrative, essays, and political satires.
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Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of characterization and plotting in favour of blurred boundaries between self and other, will and morality, identity and memory, Poe uses the Gothic to question the integrity of human existence. Indeed, Poe is less interested in solving puzzles or in moral retribution than in exposing the misconceptions that make things seem `mysterious' in the first place. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this critical edition selects twenty-four tales and places the most popular -- 'The Pit and the Pendulum', `The Fall of the House of Usher', `The Masque of the Red Death', `The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and `The Purloined Letter' -- alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays, and political satires.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Tales “
- Introduction
- MS Found in a Bottle
- Berenicë
- Morella
- Ligeia
- 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
- Eleonora
- The Masque of the Red Death
- The Pit and the Pendulum
- The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- The Gold-Bug
- The Black Cat
- A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
- The Purloined Letter
- The Systems of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
- The Imp of the Perverse
- The Cask of Amontillado
- The Domain of Arnheim
- Hop-Frog
- Von Kempelen and his Discovery
- Explanatory Notes
Autoren-Porträt von Edgar Allan Poe
David Van Leer taught at Cornell and Princeton Universities, and was Professor of English and American Literature at University of California, Davis. He was a regular contributor to The New Republic on American culture from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, and the author of Emerson's Epistemology: The Argument of the Essays (1986) and The Queening of America: Gay Culture in Straight Society (1995).Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Edgar Allan Poe
- 2018, 2. Aufl., 368 Seiten, Maße: 13,9 x 22,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: David Van Leer
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198827296
- ISBN-13: 9780198827290
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.07.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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I picked up The Pit and The Pendulum and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, a collection which just got a convenient small hardcover reprint from Oxford University Press. John DeNardo, Kirkus Reviews
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