Edgar Allan Poe

WS 1999/2000 HS Thursday 12.00 - 14.00 DOR 24, 407

Syllabus

Here comes Poe with his Raven, like Barnaby Rudge,
Three fifths of him genius, two fifths sheer fudge.

James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics

28. 10.	Introduction: Syllabus, Bibliography, etc.
04. 11.	Class Cancelled [Centennial Conference: Vladimir Nabokov at 100 (Freiburg)]
11. 11.	Poe and the (Gothic) Sublime:
	Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, S. 50-59.
	Immanuel Kant, "Übergang von dem Beurteilungsvermögen des Schönen zu dem des Erhabenen," Kritik des Urteilskraft, S. 109-137.
	[Friedrich Schiller, "Über das Erhabene," S. 1-15]
18. 11.	The Fall of the House of Usher
	Frederick L Burwick, "Edgar Allan Poe: The Sublime, the Picturesque, the Grotesque, and the Arabesque." Amerikastudien/American Studies 43. 3 (1998.)
25. 11.	Poe and the Madness of Reason:
	The Tell-Tale Heart; The Black Cat; The Pit and the Pendulum
02. 12.	The Premature Burial
	The Mask of the Red Death; The Cask of Amontillado
09. 12.	Poe and the "Romantic Idea of Women":
	Berenice; The Oval Portrait
16. 12.	Ligeia; Morella
13. 01.	Voyages into the Abyss:
	The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
20. 01.	Ms. Found in a Bottle; Descent into the Maelstroem
27. 01.	Politics and Social Order:
	The Man of the Crowd; The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether;
	The Man That Was Used Up; Some Words With a Mummy
03. 02.	Poe and the Detective:
	The Murder of the Rue Morgue; The Mystery of Marie Roget;
10. 02.	The Purloined Letter

Samstag, 12.2.
9.30 - 16 Uhr	The "Purloined Poe":
9.30-11.00	Jacques Lacan, "Seminar on The Purloined Letter"
	Jacques Derrida, "The Purveyor of Truth"
11.00-11.30	Coffeebreak
11.30-13.00	Barbara Johnson, "The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida"
13.00-14.30	Lunch
14.30-16.00	Poe and Literary Criticism

Selected Bibliography

Achilles, Jochen. 1997. Edgar Allan Poe's Melting Pot: Skeptical Soundings of Cultural Composition. Anglia, 115:3, 352-74

Arensberg, Mary, Hg. 1986. The American Sublime. New York: State University of New York P.

Amper, Susan. 1992. Untold Story: The Lying Narrator in 'The Black Cat'. Studies-in-Short-Fiction, 29:4, 475-85.

Auerbach, Jonathan. 1989. The romance of failure : first-person fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bloom, Harold. 1987. The Tales of Poe. New York: Chelsea House Publishers.

Bloom, Harold. 1999. Edgar Allan Poe. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House Publishers.

Bonaparte, Marie. 1949. The life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, a psycho-analytic interpretation. [1st English ]. Aufl. London,: Imago Pub. Co.

Bronfen, Elisabeth. 1992. Perversion, Hysterie und die Schrift: Poes 'Berenice' und die Tagebuchaufzeichnungen von Alice James. Amerikastudien-American-Studies, 37:3, 451-70.

Brown, Arthur-A. 1994. Death and Telling in Poe's 'The Imp of the Perverse'. Studies-in-Short-Fiction, 31:2, 197-205.

Brunotte, Ulrike. 1993. Hinab in den Maelstrom : das Mysterium der Katastrophe im Werk Edgar Allan Poes. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.

Burke, Edmund. 1998. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). Hrsg. von Adam Phillips. Oxford: Oxford UP.

Burwick, Frederick L. 1998. "Edgar Allan Poe: The Sublime, the Picturesque, the Grotesque, and the Arabesque". Amerikastudien/American Studies 43. 3.

Carlson, Eric W. 1966. The recognition of Edgar Allan Poe; selected criticism since 1829. Ann Arbor,: University of Michigan Press.

Clarke, Graham. 1991. Edgar Allan Poe : critical assessments. Mountfield, East Sussex: Helm Information.

Davidson, Edward H. 1957. Poe, a critical study. Cambridge,: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Dayan, Joan. 1987. Fables of mind : an inquiry into Poe's fiction. New York: Oxford University Press.

Dayan, Joan. 1993. Poe's Women: A Feminist Poe? Poe-Studies, 26:1-2, 1-12.

Dayan, Joan. 1994. Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves. American-Literature, 66:2, 239-73.

Dello Buono, Carmen Joseph. 1981. Rare early essays on Edgar Allan Poe. Darby, Pa.: Norwood Editions.

DeNuccio, Jerome. 1997. History, Narrative, and Authority: Poe's 'Metzengerstein'. College-Literature, 24:2, 71-81.

Doyle, Jacqueline. 1993. (Dis)Figuring Woman: Edgar Allan Poe's 'Berenice'. Poe-Studies, 26:1-2, 13-21.

Eco, Umberto und Thomas Albert Sebeok. 1983. The Sign of three : Dupin, Holmes, Peirce. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Elbert, Monika-M. 1991. 'The Man of the Crowd' and the Man Outside the Crowd: Poe's Narrator and the Democratic Reader. Modern-Language-Studies, 21:4, 16-30.

Elmer, Jonathan. 1995. Reading at the social limit : affect, mass culture, and Edgar Allan Poe. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.

Garrett, Peter-K. 1996. The Force of a Frame: Poe and the Control of Reading. Yearbook-of-English-Studies, 26, 54-64.

Gregorzewski, Carla. 1982. Edgar Allan Poe und die Anfänge einer originär amerikanischen Ästhetik. Heidelberg: Winter.

Hammond, J. R. 1981. An Edgar Allan Poe companion : a guide to the short stories, romances, and essays. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble Books.

Harvey, Ronald C. 1998. The critical history of Edgar Allan Poe's The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym : "a dialogue with unreason". New York: Garland Pub.

Haselstein, Ulla. 1998. "Seen from a Distance: Moment of Negativity in teh American Sublime: Tocqueville, Bryant, Emerson". Amerikastudien/American Studies 43. 3.

Hess, Jeffrey A. 1970. "Sources and Aesthetics of Poe's Landscape Fiction". American Quarterly 22.

Hoffman, Daniel. (1972; 1985; 1990; 1998). Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe. Louisiana paperback. Aufl. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Howes, Craig. 1985. "Burke, Poes, and "Usher": The Sublime Rising Woman". English Studies Quarterly (ESQ) 31. 3.

Irwin, John T. 1994. The mystery to a solution : Poe, Borges, and the analytic detective story. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Kant, Immanuel. 1995. "Analytik des Erhabenen" (1790). Kritik der Urteilskraft. Hrsg. von Rolf Toman. Köln: Könemann.

Kennedy, J. Gerald. 1987. Poe, death, and the life of writing. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Kennedy, J. Gerald. 1995. The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym : and the abyss of interpretation. New York Toronto: Twayne Publishers; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International.

Kennedy, J. Gerald. 1996. The Violence of Melancholy: Poe against Himself. American-Literary-History, 8:3, 533-51.

Ketterer, David. 1979. The rationale of deception in Poe. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Kopley, Richard. 1992. Poe's Pym : critical explorations. Durham: Duke University Press.

Longinus. 1988. Vom Erhabenen (ca. 0040). Hrsg. von Otto Schönberger. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun.

Madden, Fred. 1993. Poe's 'The Black Cat' and Freud's 'The Uncanny'. Literature-and-Psychology, 39:1-2, 52-62.

Markus, Manfred. 1985. Point of view im Erzähltext : eine angewandte Typologie am Beispiel der frühen amerikanischen short story, insbesondere Poes und Hawthornes. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck.

Martens, Klaus. 1986. Die antinomische Imagination : Studien zu einer amerikanischen literarischen Tradition (Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville). Frankfurt am Main ; New York: P. Lang.

Martin, Terry J. 1998. Rhetorical deception in the short fiction of Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press.

May, Charles E. 1991. Edgar Allan Poe : a study of the short fiction. Boston: Twayne.

Miller, Perry. (1956; 1973; 1997). The raven and the whale : Poe, Melville, and the New York literary scene. Johns Hopkins paperback. Aufl. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Muller, John P. und William J. Richardson. 1988. The Purloined Poe : Lacan, Derrida & psychoanalytic reading. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Nelson, Dana-D. 1997. The Haunting of White Manhood: Poe, Fraternal Ritual, and Polygensis. American-Literature, 69:3, 515-46.

Nishiyama,-Keiko. 1992. The Double and Death in Poe's 'William Wilson' & 'The Man of the Crowd'. Studies-in-American-Literature. 29, 1-17.

Person, Leland S., Jr. 1993. Trusting the Tellers: Paradoxes of Narrative Authority in Poe's 'A Descent into the Maelstrom'. Journal-of-Narrative-Technique, 23:1, 46-56.

Pries, Christine, Hg. 1989. Das Erhabene. Zwischen Grenzerfahrung und Größenwahn. Weinheim: Acta humaniora.

Riddel, Joseph N. 1995. Purloined letters : originality and repetition in American literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Rosenheim, Shawn und Stephen Rachman. 1995. The American face of Edgar Allan Poe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Rosenheim, Shawn. 1997. The cryptographic imagination : secret writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Ruhe, Nikolaus. 1995. 'Kidding the Reader': Ein Beitrag zur Entomologie von 'The Gold-Bug'. Amerikastudien-American-Studies, 40:4, 593-617.

Schiller, Friedrich. 1962. "Über das Erhabene" (1801). Schiller Werke. Hrsg. von Paul Stapf. 2 Bde. Bd. 2. Darmstadt/Wiesbaden: Deutsche Buchgemeinschaft

Silverman, Kenneth. 1993. New essays on Poe's major tales. Cambridge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Smith, Don G. 1999. The Poe cinema : a critical filmography of theatrical releases based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co.

Vines, Lois. 1999. Poe abroad : influence, reputation, affinities. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Voller, Jack G. 1988. "The Power of Terror: Burke and Kant in the House of Usher". Poe Studies 21. 2.

Whalen, Terence. 1992. Edgar Allan Poe and the Horrid Laws of Political Economy. American-Quarterly, 44:3, 381-417.

Warth, Eva-Maria. 1990. The haunted palace : Edgar Allan Poe und der amerikanische Horrorfilm (1909-1969). Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.

Williams, Michael-J.-S. 1993. Poe on Women: Recent Perspectives. Poe-Studies: 26:1-2, 34-40.

Wilson, Rob. 1991. American Sublime: Genealogy of a Poetic Genre. Madison: University of Wisconsin P.

Woodward, Servanne. 1989. Lacan and Derrida on 'The Purloined Letter'. Comparative Literature, 26:1, 39-49

Worley, Sam. 1994. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and the Ideology of Slavery. ESQ, A-Journal-of-the-American-Renaissance, 40:3, 219-50.

Zimmerman, Brett. 1992. 'Moral Insanity' Or Paranoid Schizophrenia: Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'. Mosaic 25:2, 39-48.

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