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Reading at the Social Limit : Affect, Mass Culture, and Edgar Allan Poe by Jonathan Elmer (1995, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherStanford University Press
ISBN-100804725411
ISBN-139780804725415
eBay Product ID (ePID)425273
Product Key Features
Number of Pages272 Pages
Publication NameReading at the Social Limit : Affect, Mass Culture, and Edgar Allan Poe
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1995
SubjectPopular Culture, General, American / General, Books & Reading
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science
AuthorJonathan Elmer
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight18 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN95-002254
ReviewsThis is a brilliant exploration of Poe's writing in relation to the formation of modern mass subjectivity." —Michael Moon, Duke University, "This is a brilliant exploration of Poe's writing in relation to the formation of modern mass subjectivity." --Michael Moon, Duke University, "This is a brilliant exploration of Poe's writing in relation to the formation of modern mass subjectivity." -Michael Moon, Duke University
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal818/.309
SynopsisArguing that Poe is exemplary in his ambivalent relationship to mass culture, the author offers a new theorization of mass culture and ideology., The work of Edgar Allan Poe and his place in the literary canon continues to provoke debate. Many critics have been puzzled as to how Poe can stand simultaneously as the germinal figure of a central modernist trajectory (leading via Baudelaire to French Symbolism and thence to the high modernism of Eliot and others) and as the acknowledged pioneer of several durable mass-cultural genres, including detective and science fiction and certain modes of sensational or Gothic horror. Arguing that Poe is not exceptional but exemplary in this ambivalent relationship to mass culture, the author offers a new theory of mass culture and ideology through extended analysis of four motifs in Poe's works: the notion of the uncanny and its link to anxieties about originality; Gothic horror and identification; the confessional psychopath; and the figure of the dupe and the logic of the hoax.
LC Classification NumberPS2637.4.U6E46 1995
