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Poe: The Trauma of an Era


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Despite the attention lavished on Edgar Allan Poe, his long-standing status as a «critical orphan» endures. He is known as much for a poem, a story and a biographical myth as for his extraordinary body of work, often written off as second rate. He is a writer obscurely cherished by lovers of the macabre, oversimplified and entangled in sophisticated theoretical analyses and judgements that fail to consider the esoteric doctrines central to his work. In other words, lost between the initiated and the profane, Poe has become a gigantic puzzle and one that needs reassembling. His writings remain elusive, while his role in the literary history of our age defies canonicity.

An intellectual history that fills this crucial gap by restoring Poe to his turbulent historical context, this book recovers the philosophical and esoteric complexity of a riddler, a satirist and a biting social critic in his struggle to make sense of the cardinal malaises and dominant ideas of a revolutionary age, confronted with a new and shattering conception of man, nature and the universe. It reconsiders the way we read, study and present Poe to future generations, decoding with exceptional clarity the enigmas of a monumental writer - a cult figure - who is inseparable from the historical consciousness of the modern world.


About the Author:

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.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781787073326
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
  • Edition: New ed
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Trauma of an Era
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1787073327
  • Publisher Date: 10 Oct 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 396
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 770 gr


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