The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
, by Frye, StevenNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781587656163 | 1587656167
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 9/15/2009
The original essays in this set illuminate the influences that shaped Poe, contextualize his work, and assess his enduring impact on American and European poetry and fiction. A sketch of the historical and cultural forces surrounding Poe illuminates their influence on his aesthetic; a reception history examines Poe's enduring contributions to the short-story genre, the French Symbolist movement, and modernist aesthetics; a comparison of Poe's and Baudelaire's works reveals how the two authors exploited the duplicitous possibilities within the writer-reader relationship.