Retrospective Poe: The Master, His Readership, His Legacy

ISBN-13: 9783031099854 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 323 str.

Jos? Ram?n Ib??ez Ib??ez; Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan

Opis

This book analyzes a range of Edgar Allan Poe’s writing, focusing on new readings that engage with classical and (post)modern studies of his work and the troubling literary relationship that he had with T.S. Eliot. Whilst the book examines Poe’s influence in Spain, and how his figure has been marketed to young and adult Spanish reading audiences, it also explores the profound impact that Poe had on other audiences, such as in America, Greece, and Japan, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The essays attest to Poe’s well-deserved reputation, his worldwide legacy, and his continued presence in global literature. This book will appeal particularly to university teachers, Poe scholars, graduate students, and general readers interested in Poe’s oeuvre.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: Re-assessing Poe’s ‘Adolescent’ Art - JOSÉ R. IBÁÑEZ IBÁÑEZ & SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ GUERRERO-STRACHAN

 

Poe Classical and (Post)modern readings

2 Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Nostalgia and Poe’s Readership - JEFFREY SAVOYE

3 Fear, Unbelief, and the Ascendancy of Edgar Poe - J. GERALD KENNEDY

4 “The Glory that was Greece and the Grandeur that was Rome”: Edgar Allan Poe and the Classical World - HARRY LEE POE

5 Poe’s Arrival in Europe: The Case of Greece - DIMITRIOS TSOKANOS

6 The Achievement of Edgar Allan Poe: Poe among the Modernists - VIORICA PATEA

7 Poeta Ludens: Poe’s Twisted Modern Times - STEPHANIE SOMMERFELD

 

Poe’s Young Adult Readership

8 Reading, Understanding, and Praising Poe’s Illustrated Oeuvre: From Childhood to Old Age - FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ MORENO & MARGARITA RIGAL-ARAGÓN

9 Poe’s ‘The Gold-Bug.’ Reading, and Race - JOHN GRUESSER

10 Poe’s “Berenice” in Popular Culture: Contemporary (Audio)visual representations in Spain -

Mª ISABEL JIMÉNEZ-GONZÁLEZ & ANA GONZÁLEZ-RIVAS FERNÁNDEZ

11 “The Masque of the Red Death” in literature and cinema: Poe’s original story and Corman’s film adaptation - EUSEBIO V. LLÀCER LLORCA

 

Poe’s Adult Readership and his Legacy

12 Beyond Baudelaire’s Views of Poe: Carlos Fernández Cuenca and Josep Farrán i Mayoral. Literary Criticism and Aesthetic Reception in 1930s and 1940s Spain - JOSÉ MANUEL CORREOSO-RÓDENAS & ALEJANDRO JAQUERO-ESPARCIA

13 “Darkness there and nothing more:” Edgar A. Poe and the Popular Culture of Necrolatry and Tanatography - EULALIA PIÑERO GIL

14 Echoes of Poe in the Jazz Age: The Haunting of F. Scott Fitzgerald - BONNIE MCMULLEN

15 Growing up in Poe’s Shadow: Intertextuality, Jungian Projections, and Creativity in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and Stephen King’s “The Monkey” - MARTA MIQUEL-BALDELLOU

16 Poe’s Poetics and Eliot’s Poetry. A Denial of Influence? - SŁAWOMIR STUDNIARZ

17 “The Man of the Crowd” and His Followers: Poe, Rampo and Sakate - TAKAYUKI TATSUMI

O autorze

José R. Ibáñez is Assistant Professor at the University of Almeria, Spain. He has published articles and book chapters on Comparative literature and American literature, with an emphasis on Edgar Allan Poe and the short fiction of Southern United States authors and hyphenated American authors, such as Jhumpa Lahiri and Ha Jin.

Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan is Senior Lecturer at the University of Valladolid, Spain. He has published extensively on the relations between Spanish and American literatures and on the short story. His research interests include American literature of the Romantic and Modernist periods.

Blurb

This book analyzes a range of Edgar Allan Poe’s writing, focusing on new readings that engage with classical and (post)modern studies of his work and the troubling literary relationship that he had with T.S. Eliot. Whilst the book examines Poe’s influence in Spain, and how his figure has been marketed to young and adult Spanish reading audiences, it also explores the profound impact that Poe had on other audiences, such as in America, Greece, and Japan, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The essays attest to Poe’s well-deserved reputation, his worldwide legacy, and his continued presence in global literature. This book will appeal particularly to university teachers, Poe scholars, graduate students, and general readers interested in Poe’s oeuvre.

José R. Ibáñez is Assistant Professor at the University of Almeria, Spain. He has published articles and book chapters on Comparative literature and American literature, with an emphasis on Edgar Allan Poe and the short fiction of Southern United States authors and hyphenated American authors, such as Jhumpa Lahiri and Ha Jin.

Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan is Senior Lecturer at the University of Valladolid, Spain. He has published extensively on the relations between Spanish and American literatures and on the short story. His research interests include American literature of the Romantic and Modernist periods.