The tales of Edgar Allan Poe / editor, Steven Frye. - Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 2010. - viii, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Critical insights . - Critical insights. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On Poe's tales / Biography of Edgar Allan Poe / Paris review perspective / debt owed, a debt paid? Poe's literary cultural heritage / Introduction to Poe criticism / "Hypocrite lecteur" : the reader as accomplice in Poe's short stories / Edgar Allan Poe's fantastic short stories / Irresistible impulses : Edgar Allan Poe and the insanity defense / limits of reason : Poe's deluded detectives / What happens in "The fall of the house of Usher"? / Poe and the powers of the mind / motive for murder in "The cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe / problem of realism in "The gold bug" / self-consuming narrator in Poe's "Ligeia" and "Usher" / Poe's re-vision : the recovery of the second story / Absolute Poe : his system of transcendental racism / Steven Frye -- Charles E. May -- Nathaniel Rich -- Jeff Grieneisen, Courtney Ruffner -- Suan Amper -- Matthew J. Bolton -- Santiago Rodr�iguez Guerrero-Strachan -- John Clemen -- J. Gerald Kennedy -- J. O. Bailey -- Robert Shulman -- Elena V. Baraban -- J. Woodrow Hassell, Jr. -- Ronald Bieganowski -- Cynthia S. Jordan -- Maurice S. Lee. The A The The The The

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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Tales.
Poe, Edgar Allan.

PS 2618 .T32 / T35 2010