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Deciphering Poe: Subtexts, Contexts, Subversive Meanings (Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe) - Softcover

Urakova, Alexandra

 
9781611461992: Deciphering Poe: Subtexts, Contexts, Subversive Meanings (Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe)

Synopsis

Deciphering Poe expands the contextual framework of Poe's work and explores the subversive nature of his art: its use of codes, secret writing, and ratiocination. It offers fresh perspectives Poe's debt to baroque tradition, his response to Catholicism, his tribute to philosophical idea of sublimity, and his controversial afterlife reception.

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About the Author

Alexandra Urakova works as a senior researcher at the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences and she is associate professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia, Moscow. She is the author of The Poetics of the Body in the Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (2009, in Russian).

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