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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"The Purloined Letter"”.
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Towards a New Currency of Economic Criticism
<p>“The Purloined Letter,” Edgar Allan Poe's third and final tale featuring the detective Dupin, has evoked a long history of critical response. Criticism has tended to read the text for its role in the development of detective fiction and as illustrative of various theoretical positions. However, …
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Kinds of spaces : poststructural concepts and metafictional appropriations
… in structural linguistics, contemporary critical theory, and metafiction and thus moves into the realms of poststructuralism and deconstruction while developing a theory of space in writing. Its central sections attempt to conceptually and physically broaden the scope of the investigation and …
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‘Transportation is physical, communication is psychical’ : female sexuality and modes of communication in nineteenth-century transatlantic literature
This thesis connects the discourses of transatlanticism, erotic communication, women and agency in the nineteenth century. It examines four modes of communication: mesmerism, spiritualism, telegraphism and epistolary correspondence, in relation to discourses of female sexuality and power in …
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The Ethics of Reading: Levinas and Gadamer on encountering the other in literature
This dissertation explores the question ‘can we encounter the Other through the mediation of literature?’ The question reflects an increasing interest in ethics by literary theorists and particularly in the application of Emmanuel Levinas’s work to the field of literary studies. I identify a major …