Edgar Allan Poe: A Phenomenological View

by David Halliburton

Book Overview

By attempting to suspend moral, ideological, or psychological assumptions, a phenomenological interpretation of literature hopes to reach "the things themselves," the essential phenomena of being, space, and time, as they are constituted, by consciousness, in words. Although there has been a tradition of phenomenological criticism in Europe for the last twenty years, David Halliburton is the first to write a general study of an American author...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691619344
• ISBN13: 9780691619347
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"