The Purloined Poe
Subtitle: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading
Contributors: John P. Muller (Editor); William J. Richardson (Editor)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 1, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780801832925
Subjects: Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory; Psychology Of Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 19th Century American Novel And Short Story; Purloined letter; English; Literary Criticism; USA; Poe, Edgar Allan,; American - General; Contributions in criticism; Derrida, Jacques; Lacan, Jacques; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Poe, Edgar Allan; Psychology in literature; Theory, etc; United States; 1809-1849; History and criticism; Psychoanalysis and literature; Psychological fiction, America; Psychological fiction, American
First sentence: Poe wrote J. R. Lowell on July 2, 1844, that " 'The Purloined Letter,' forthcoming in 'The Gift' is perhaps the best of my tales of ratiocination."