Edgar Allen Poe: A Phenomenological View

by David Halliburton

Book Overview

By attempting to suspend moral, ideological, or psychological assumptions, a phenomenological interpretation of literature hopes to reach the things themselves, the essential phenomena of being, space, and time, as they are constituted, by consciousness, in words. Although there has been a tradition of phenomenological criticism in Europe for the last twenty years, David Halliburton is the first to write a general study of an American author from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691062374
• ISBN13: 9780691062372
• Release Date: February 1973
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.