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The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida and Psychoanalytic Reading by Edgar Allan Poe
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Poe's flare for the macabre has endured through the ages, bringing a new set of fans to the world of poetry.
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The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida and Psychoanalytic Reading by Edgar Allan Poe
Features
Paperback:
412 pages
; Dimensions (in inches): 1.03 x 9.04 x 6.03
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; (March 1988)
ISBN:
0801832934
Book Description
In 1956 Jacques Lacan proposed an interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's "Purloined Letter" that at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radical new concept of psychoanalysis. Lacan's far reaching claims about language and truth provoked a vigorous critique by Jacques Derrida, whose essay in turn spawned further responses from other writers. "The Purloined Poe" brings Poe's story together with these readings to provide a structured exercise in the elaboration of text interpretation.
Reader Reviews
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Confussion explained, May 4, 2000
Reviewer:
Andres Carlos Salama
from Buenos Aires Argentina
Obviously, the reader from Miami, Florida filed the wrong review. This book is not the Poe short story "The Purloined Letter" (which, by the way, is a good story), but, rather a philosophical and psychoanalitical study of Poe.
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