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