Poe and the subversion of American literature: satire, fantasy, critique
Tally, Robert T.
Poe and the subversion of American literature: satire, fantasy, critique Tally, Robert T. - New york Bloomsbury 2015 - x, 156 p.
Table of contents:
1. Subterranean Noises
2. A Nomad in a Land of Settlers
3. Points of No Return
4. The Nightmare of the Unknowable
5. Captivating the Reader
6. The Perverse Originality of Literature Proper
7. The Cosmopolitan's Uncanny Duplicity
8. Extra Mœnia Flammantia Mundi: Satire, Fantasy, and the Critic's Laughter
In Poe and the Subversion of American Literature, Robert T. Tally Jr. argues that Edgar Allan Poe is best understood, not merely as a talented artist or canny magazinist, but primarily as a practical joker who employs satire and fantasy to poke fun at an emergent nationalist discourse circulating in the United States. Poe's satirical and fantastic mode, on display even in his apparently serious short stories and literary criticism, undermines the earnest attempts to establish a distinctively national literature in the nineteenth century. In retrospect, Poe's work also subtly subverts the tenets of an institutionalized American Studies in the twentieth century. Tally interprets Poe's life and works in light of his own social milieu and in relation to the disciplinary field of American literary studies, finding Poe to be neither the poète maudit of popular mythology nor the representative American writer revealed by recent scholarship. Rather, Poe is an untimely figure whose work ultimately makes a mockery of those who would seek to contain it. Drawing upon Gilles Deleuze's distinction between nomad thought and state philosophy, Tally argues that Poe's varied literary and critical writings represent an alternative to American literature. Through his satirical critique of U.S. national culture and his otherworldly projection of a postnational space of the imagination, Poe establishes a subterranean, nomadic, and altogether worldly literary practice.
(http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/poe-and-the-subversion-of-american-literature-9781501309298/)
9781501309298
Poe, Edgar Allan, - 1809-1849 - Criticism and interpretation
Satire
United States - Intellectual life - 19th century
Social conditions
818.309 / T2P6
Poe and the subversion of American literature: satire, fantasy, critique Tally, Robert T. - New york Bloomsbury 2015 - x, 156 p.
Table of contents:
1. Subterranean Noises
2. A Nomad in a Land of Settlers
3. Points of No Return
4. The Nightmare of the Unknowable
5. Captivating the Reader
6. The Perverse Originality of Literature Proper
7. The Cosmopolitan's Uncanny Duplicity
8. Extra Mœnia Flammantia Mundi: Satire, Fantasy, and the Critic's Laughter
In Poe and the Subversion of American Literature, Robert T. Tally Jr. argues that Edgar Allan Poe is best understood, not merely as a talented artist or canny magazinist, but primarily as a practical joker who employs satire and fantasy to poke fun at an emergent nationalist discourse circulating in the United States. Poe's satirical and fantastic mode, on display even in his apparently serious short stories and literary criticism, undermines the earnest attempts to establish a distinctively national literature in the nineteenth century. In retrospect, Poe's work also subtly subverts the tenets of an institutionalized American Studies in the twentieth century. Tally interprets Poe's life and works in light of his own social milieu and in relation to the disciplinary field of American literary studies, finding Poe to be neither the poète maudit of popular mythology nor the representative American writer revealed by recent scholarship. Rather, Poe is an untimely figure whose work ultimately makes a mockery of those who would seek to contain it. Drawing upon Gilles Deleuze's distinction between nomad thought and state philosophy, Tally argues that Poe's varied literary and critical writings represent an alternative to American literature. Through his satirical critique of U.S. national culture and his otherworldly projection of a postnational space of the imagination, Poe establishes a subterranean, nomadic, and altogether worldly literary practice.
(http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/poe-and-the-subversion-of-american-literature-9781501309298/)
9781501309298
Poe, Edgar Allan, - 1809-1849 - Criticism and interpretation
Satire
United States - Intellectual life - 19th century
Social conditions
818.309 / T2P6