A World of Words ：Language and Displacement in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe

Publication subTitle ：Language and Displacement in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe

Author： Michael J. S. Williams  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 1988

E-ISBN: 9780822381495

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822307808

Subject： I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation

Keyword： Poe, Edgar Allan, -- 1809-1849 -- Language., Poe, Edgar Allan, -- 1809-1849 -- Fictional works., Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism.

Language： ENG

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A World of Words offers a new look at the degree to which language itself is a topic of Poe's texts. Stressing the ways his fiction reflects on the nature of its own signifying practices, Williams sheds new light on such issues as Poe's characterization of the relationship between author and reader as a struggle for authority, on his awareness of the displacement of an "authorial writing self" by a "self as it is written," and on his debunking of the redemptive properties of the romantic symbol.

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