'Desert of the Blest': Poe's Anti-Representational Invocations of the Near East.
Poe's poetry and fiction are full of cultural and religious references to the Near East. This essay suggests that Poe's invocations of the Near East are part of a deliberately anti-representational strategy for dealing with cultural difference that constitutes part of Poe's understanding of one of h...
| Publicado en: | Gothic Studies Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 53 - 61 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Edinburgh University Press
Nov2010
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| Sumario: | Poe's poetry and fiction are full of cultural and religious references to the Near East. This essay suggests that Poe's invocations of the Near East are part of a deliberately anti-representational strategy for dealing with cultural difference that constitutes part of Poe's understanding of one of his most central concepts, the 'arabesque'. This anti-representational strategy is built on Poe's sympathetic reading of texts associated with the Near East, Islam, and Arab and Persian cultures. |
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