Student Companion to Edgar Allan Poe.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (158 pages)
- Student Companions to Classic Writers Series .
- Student Companions to Classic Writers Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Notes Toward a Biography -- 2 The Contribution and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe -- DEFINING THE GOTHIC REVOLUTION -- INSPECTING POE: THE DETECTIVE TRADITION -- THE COMIC AND SEAFARING POE -- POE'S LITERARY LEGACY -- POE'S AMERICAN FACE -- INTERNATIONAL POE: THE MULTIMEDIA LEGACY -- THE PEOPLE'S POE -- 3 The Art of Poetry -- "SONNET-TO SCIENCE" (1829) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- SYMBOLS AND THEMES -- "THE CITY IN THE SEA" (1845) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- SYMBOLS AND THEMES -- "THE RAVEN" (1845) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- SYMBOLS -- THEMES -- "ULALUME: A BALLAD" (1847) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- SYMBOLS -- THEMES -- "THE BELLS" (1849) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- SYMBOLS -- THEMES -- "ANNABEL LEE" (1849) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- SYMBOLS -- THEMES -- ALTERNATE READING: GENRE CRITICISM -- 4 Vampiric Love Stories -- "MORELLA" (1835) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- CHARACTERS -- THEMES -- "BERENICE" (1835) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- CHARACTERS -- THEMES -- "LIGEIA" (1838) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- CHARACTERS -- THEMES -- "THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER" (1839) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- CHARACTERS -- THEMES -- "THE OVAL PORTRAIT" (1842) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- CHARACTERS -- THEMES -- ALTERNATE READING: FEMINISM -- 5 Tales of Psychological Terror, Homicide, and Revenge -- THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1842) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- CHARACTERS -- THEMES -- THE TELL-TALE HEART (1843) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- CHARACTERS -- THEMES -- THE BLACK CAT (1843) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- CHARACTERS -- THEMES -- THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE (1845) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- CHARACTERS -- THEMES -- THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO (1846) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- CHARACTERS -- THEMES -- "HOP-FROG" (1849) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- CHARACTERS -- THEMES -- ALTERNATIVE READING: MARXIST INTERPRETATION -- 6 The Origins of the Detective Tale -- THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (1841). SETTING AND PLOT -- CHARACTERS -- THEMES -- THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET (1841) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- CHARACTERS -- THEMES -- THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM (1843) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- CHARACTERS -- THEMES -- THE PURLOINED LETTER (1844) -- SETTING AND PLOT -- CHARACTERS -- THEMES -- ALTERNATE READING: PSYCHOANALYTICAL CRITICISM -- Selected Bibliography -- BOOKS BY EDGAR ALLAN POE -- EDITIONS AND COLLECTIONS OF WORKS BY EDGAR ALLAN POE -- LITERARY ANTHOLOGIES CONTAINING REPRESENTATIVE SELECTIONS OF WORK BY EDGAR ALLAN POE -- SELECTED BIOGRAPHIES AND BIOCRITICAL STUDIES ON EDGAR ALLAN POE -- SELECTED POE BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND OTHER REFERENCE SOURCES -- SELECTED CRITICISM I -- CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF POE'S LIFE AND WORK -- BOOKS ABOUT EDGAR ALLAN POE -- ARTICLES AND PARTS OF BOOKS ABOUT EDGAR ALLAN POE -- Index -- About the Author.
9780313007132
Fantasy literature, American -- Examinations -- Study guides.