Poe’s Strategies of Seduction: Transference, Incongruity and the Undecidability of Meaning

What makes readers, particularly critics, revisit Poe? One of the objections that can be brought against most psychoanalytic interpretations of his life or work is its omission of “the why.” Why write about Poe? What compels us to return to an author already surrounded by, to use Susan Sontag’s wor...

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Main Author: Lorelei Caraman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Pardubice 2015-12-01
Series:American and British Studies Annual
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Online Access:https://absa.upce.cz/index.php/absa/article/view/2273