The Grand and the Fair: Poe's Landscape Aesthetics and Pictorial Techniques (PDF)
"...an informative and provocative study."-Glen A. Omans, Poe Studies...
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An examination of Poe's use of the conventions of the sublime and the picturesque, with a brief history of both traditions as they were developed in eighteenth-century America.
"...an informative and provocative study."-Glen A. Omans, Poe Studies Association Newsletter.
"This is a book filled with new insights into individual tales and poems by Poe. ...It also provides a solid theoretical background for them."- Donald Barlow Stauffer, University of Mississippi Studies in English.
Ever since the poet William Carlos Williams dubbed Edgar Allan Poe the spontaneous outgrowth of his local American milieu,a critics and scholars have tended to overlook or ignore Williams` worthwhile suggestion to place him on native grounds.
Scholars of Poe have pursued their somewhat narrowly focused specialist studies while in the great array of books on the general subject of American landscape and literature, treatment of him is scanty or superficial. While approaches to the literature of the American landscape range from the mythic to the ecological to the broadly interdisciplinary, rarely does Poe receive more than cursory mention.
Among the book-length studies, Edwin Fussell`s Frontier: American Literature and the American West, zealously reading frontier implications in Poe`s writings, represents an exception by giving extended treatment to him.
The short shrift given to Poe is surprising since he wrote at least a half-dozen landscape tales. Furthermore, The Journal of Julius Rodman is overtly a narrative of exploration into the Far West, and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym receives frequent citation as a major source of Melville`s Moby-Dick, a work often studied by students of wilderness literature.
Poe also wrote a significant body of poetry that deals with landscapes, of which "Dream-Land" and "Ulalume" are prime examples. The lack of attention to Ppe`s position in the context of American landscape literature can probably be explained by addressing the cliche that he stands outside the mainstream of the national literary tradition.
With specific reference to wilderness literature, Poe`s review of James Fenimore Cooper`s Wyandotte, or the Hutted Knoll indicates detachment from the typical American novel of the frontier:
In saying that the interest depends, first, upon the nature of the theme, we mean to suggest that
The two theses in question have been handled usque ad nauseamand this through the instinctive perception of the universal interest which appertains to them. A writer, distrustful of his powers, can scarcely do better than discuss either one or the other.
A man of genius will rarely, and should never undertake either, first, because both are excessively hackneyed, and secondly, because the reader never fails, in forming his opinion of a book, for that intrinsic interest which is inseparable from the subject and independent of the manner in which it is treated.
Although the syntax of the passage proceeds sinuously, Poe indicates that the conventional mode of singing the glories of the wilderness nearly guarantees popular success whereas a failure with this theme would signify the author`s "imbecility." The treatment of Cooper in the review is generally complimentary, but Poe could not damn with fainter praise.
- Autor: Kent P. Ljungquist
- 1984, 1. Auflage, 229 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Digitalia
- ISBN-10: 0916379205
- ISBN-13: 9780916379209
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.1984
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