Pictures of Ascent in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe

by Douglas Anderson

Book Overview

With an unconventional new perspective, Anderson identifies Edgar Allan Poe's texts as a journey and explores the ways Poe both encounters and transcends the realm of the material. Beginning with Poe's earliest short stories through his last fragment of imaginative prose, this book shows the path that Poe traveled as he came to understand how to transform "rudimentary" into "ultimate" life. Anderson skillfully argues that Poe's response to the existential...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230619436
• ISBN13: 9780230619432
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.3"