A World of Words

Language and Displacement in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American
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Author: Michael J. S. Williams ISBN: 9780822381495
Publisher: Duke University Press Publication: July 12, 2013
Imprint: Duke University Press Books Language: English
Author: Michael J. S. Williams
ISBN: 9780822381495
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication: July 12, 2013
Imprint: Duke University Press Books
Language: English

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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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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