Poe: The Trauma of an Era

ISBN-13: 9781787073326 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 396 str.

Oscar Xavier Altamirano

Opis

Poe: The Trauma of an Era depicts a popular philosopher and social critic in his struggle to comprehend the cardinal malaises and ideas of a revolutionary age. It reconsiders the way we read, study and present Poe to future generations and decodes the enigmas of a monumental writer inseparable from the historical consciousness of the modern world.

Recenzje

«I consider [Altamirano] superlatively well qualified. He has studied Poe's works closely, and in my opinion knows them as intimately as do the leading American scholars and critics of Poe. His 'historia intelectual' promises to open a whole new era ...» - Kenneth Silverman, Professor Emeritus in English, New York University, author of the biography Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize in American History «A perpetual, constant struggle against the commonplace, true to the idea of the Athenaeists to go to the original sources ... It is a book that forces us to read Poe in a different way.» - Vicente Quirarte, Tenure Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, member of La Academia Mexicana de la Lengua and El Colegio Nacional

Spis treści

CONTENTS: The Poe Case - Towards a Metaphysics of Reintegration - A Fissure in The Great Chain of Being - The Intellectual Trauma of an Era - An Aspect of Ill in the Heavens - The Twofold Face of the Absolute - Examples of Incorrigible Bad Taste: The Grotesque and the Arabesque - The Triple Goddess: Divine Genealogy of the Romantic Heroine - Death and the Maiden - Daughters of Heaven and Earth; Apocalypse according Poe - The Lost Word in Poe's Life and Work.

O autorze

Óscar Xavier Altamirano is an essayist, critic and public intellectual whose long-running work on Edgar Allan Poe has won the recognition of scholarly and general readers alike. He lives in Mexico City, which he considers the ideal environment for reading Poe.