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The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (Parallax... by Edgar Allan Poe
Features
Paperback:
312 pages
; Dimensions (in inches): 0.63 x 9.00 x 6.05
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; (February 1997)
ISBN:
080185332X
Reader Reviews
much better than those inbreds are saying, April 28, 2003
Reviewer:
Elizabeth Stevens
from Providence RI
If you've gone to colege and have had to endure the [modest] writing of literary critics since the 1960s, this book will read like pure exbasy to your nervous system. Though it functions for me generically as self-help, it's also whimsical and wandering as a good narrative should be. Ultimately meta, Rosenheim's prose is dense but not impossible- if you have been indoctrinated by higher learning to see texts as coded puzzles, you'll find this book exemplifies the technique it decodes. If you are a genius like me, you'll love it, or you are unfit to hold your post.
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