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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"purloined"”.
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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 the debate between Lacan and Derrida on the "Purloined Letter"; "'a spatial displacement of words"' discusses the disruption of syntax and the ensuing dissemination of letters across the page in concrete prose, particularly as they relate to narratological displacement in Raymond Federman's …
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The Uncanny Other: Edgar Allan Poe’s America
… that the thesis reads in Chapter II, “Poe’s Purloined Letters: Plagiarism, “Marginalia” and Uncanny Authorship”. Chapter III, “The Other’s Look: Re-enactments and the French Poe,” investigates the commodification of art and artist in the works of Poe, and explores how, using modern specular …
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‘Transportation is physical, communication is psychical’ : female sexuality and modes of communication in nineteenth-century transatlantic literature
… Chuzzlewit (1844) and Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter’ (1844), the thesis shows how women act as conduits of their sexual desire and become agents of knowledge exchange via working at telegraph offices or simply writing and posting private letters. In relation to this, the thesis also …
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The Ethics of Reading: Levinas and Gadamer on encountering the other in literature
… hand, I read Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, ‘The Purloined Letter’ to explore the implications of my research in a concrete example.