Fables of Mind: An Inquiry Into Poe's Fiction

by Joan Dayan

This revisionist study of Poe's fiction concentrates on works generally neglected by Poe critics. Operating in reverse chronological order, Joan Dayan begins with a close reading of Poe's Eureka, subtitled "Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe" and uses this cosmology to examine Poe's method in creating his fiction. This "unreadable" work, she argues, best exemplifies that method, for in his work, the bizarre, apparently nonsensical, and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195041607
• ISBN13: 9780195041606
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.8"