Overview

The essays in this collection were originally presented as talks at the Poe Studies Association's Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference: The Bicentennial in October 2009. All the essays in this volume deal with Poe's influence on authors from the United States and abroad; in addition, the collection also includes two examples of primary texts by contemporary authors whose work is directly related to Poe's work or life: an interview with Japanese detective novelist Kiyoshi Kasai and poems by Charles Cantalupo. This volume includes interpretative essays on international authors whose work reflects back on Poe’s work: Edogawa Rampo from Japan; Lu Xun from China; Fernando Pessoa, Eça de Queirós and Ramalho Ortigão from Portugal; Angela Carter from England; and Nikolai Gogol from Russia. The essays in this collection complement and extend a project begun by Lois Vines' Poe Abroad (University of Iowa Press, 1999) and take a wider perspective on Poe's influence with essays on Poe's impact on American authors William Faulkner, Mary Oliver, Joyce Carol Oates, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Jacobs.

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Author:   Barbara Cantalupo
Publisher:   Associated University Presses
Imprint:   Lehigh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.395kg
ISBN:  

9781611461268

ISBN 10:   161146126
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   18 October 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction Barbara Cantalupo Chapter 1: Pathologizing Modernity: The Grotesque in Poe and Rampo Seth Jacobowitz Chapter 2: Visionary Media in Edgar Allan Poe and Edogawa Rampo William O. Gardner Chapter 3: Poe’s Shadow in Japan: Alternative Works and Failed Escapes in Edogawa Rampo’s Strange Tale of Panorama Island Mark Silver Chapter 4: Interview with Kasai Kiyoshi Barbara Cantalupo Chapter 5: Lu Xun and Poe: Reading the Psyche Diane Smith Chapter 6: “Breaking the Law of Silence”: Rereading Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd” and Gogol’s “The Portrait” Alexandra Urakova Chapter 7: “What has occurred that has (never) occurred before”: A Case Study of the First Portuguese Detective Novel Isabel Oliveira Martins Chapter 8: “Around Reason Feeling”—Poe’s Impact on Fernando Pessoa’s Modernist Proposal Margarida Vale de Gato Chapter 9: Poe in Place Charles Cantalupo Chapter 10: Ligeia—Not Me! Three Women Writers Respond to Poe Daniel Hoffman Chapter 11: Gothic Windows in Poe and Faulkner: “The Fall of the House of Usher” and Absalom! Absalom! Shoko Itoh Chapter 12: Poe’s Progeny: Varieties of Detection in Key American Literary Texts, 1841-1861 John Gruesser

Reviews

For Poe's Pervasive Influence, Cantalupo (Pennsylvania State Univ., Lehigh Valley) selected ten essays, an interview with Japanese mystery novelist Kiyoshi Kasai, and poems from presentations at the Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference in 2009. She notes in her introduction that this volume builds on Lois Davis Vines's Poe Abroad: Influence, Reputation, Affinities (CH, Mar'00, 37-3793), still the important basic source for Poe's early and later international influences. Cantalupo's choices reflect many of the changes and new geographies of a decade of accelerated transnational interests in the literary world. Three essays make solid connections between Poe and Japanese fiction writer Edogawa Rampo. American gothicism, including fiction by Lafcadio Hearn and William Faulkner, has been an interest in Japan for some time; Orientalism had its influence on Poe (for example, Tamerlane, 1827) and on other American writers. In addition to Asia, the essays reach to Russia, Portugal, and back to the US. The noted Daniel Hoffman, who died in March 2013, discusses Poe's presence in work by Angela Carter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Mary Oliver. Many of the writers have previously published on Poe or the genres in which he worked. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. -- T. Bonner Jr., emeritus, Xavier University of Louisiana CHOICE

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Barbara Cantalupo is associate professor of English in the Department of English at The Pennsylvania State University and teaches at the Lehigh Valley Campus.

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