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XXII; 282 S.; Illustr.; 24 cm. Originalleinen.

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Gutes Ex.; Einband geringfügig berieben. - Englisch. - Edgar Allan Poe (* 19. Januar 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ? 7. Oktober 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Er prägte entscheidend die Gattung der Kurzgeschichte sowie die Genres der Kriminalliteratur, der Horror- bzw. Schauerliteratur. Einzelne Erzählungen haben spätere Autoren der Science-Fiction wie Jules Verne beeinflusst. Seine Poesie, in Europa rezipiert von Charles Baudelaire, wurde zum Fundament des Symbolismus und damit der modernen Dichtung. ... (wiki) // INHALT : Preface ---- Prologue: The View from "The Light-House" ---- PART ONE: THE AESTHETIC ---- THE "LOOK" OF BEAUTY ---- Poe's Working Theory ---- The "Look" of His Beauty ---- THE PERCEPTION OF BEAUTY ---- Salvation and Terror ---- Madness, Credibility and the Beautiful Subject ---- "Ligeia": Multiple Intention, Unified Effect ---- Catastrophe as a Beautiful Effect ---- Summary ---- PART TWO: THE HORROR ---- SOME CONTEXT FOR THE MINOR HORROR STORY ---- The Significance of the Minor Tale ---- Mr. Higginbotham and Mr. Shuttleworthy ---- Horror and Mr. Pennifeather ---- Opium and Strong Tea ---- The Poe-Mask Fallacy ---- HORROR, BEAUTY AND INVOLVEMENT ---- The Structure of the Horror Tale ---- Into the Catacombs ---- PART THREE: THE ENVIRONMENT ---- THE MAGAZINE ENVIRONMENT ---- Quality and Subject-Matter ---- Illustrations ---- Music ---- Summary ---- THE INFLUENCE OF THE MAGAZINES ON THE FICTION ---- Poe's Moon Shot ---- An Arresting Subject ---- Putrefaction as a Commodity ---- THE INTELLECTUAL ENVIRONMENT ---- Concord and Fordham ---- Poe as a Mystic ---- Dupin as Transcendental Hero ---- PART FOUR: SOME FAILURES, SOME SUCCESSES ---- MORALITY AS THEME OR TECHNIQUE ---- Poe as American ---- A Purist's Morality ---- Salem and Fordham ---- The Walter Mittyish Mr. Poe ---- The Short Story as a Musical Form ---- The Moral Effect ---- Poe, Melville and Hawthorne: The Moral Context ---- WIDER HORIZONS ---- Poe's Lonely Crowd ---- Poe's Novel ---- Judaism, Plagiarism and the Wild West ---- Epilogue: He Fled to the Desert as to a Friend ---- Footnotes ---- Index.