'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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