Poe, Women and Cultural Celebrity Dissertation or Thesis by Stace2097
Presents an extensive investigation into the writings of Edgar Allan Poe especially into his encryption of the feminine.
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This paper explains that, 150 years after his death, the character of Edgar Allan Poe is still vigorously debated as to whether he was a romantic, a mad-man or a cultural celebrity. Following a lengthy academic investigation, the author finds it strange that, despite all of the feminist criticism, ontological readings have not been employed to greater extent to support the arguments either for Poe as a feminist or as a misogynist because much of Poe's critical appraisal discusses how and why Poe encrypts the female body. The paper concludes that even the name Edgar Allan Poe alone conjures up an images of a mad man and of a genius, who is part of a cultural tradition where the image of the author does not depend on academic insight. Footnotes and many quotations are included in the paper.
Table of Contents:
Changing Faces: The Romantic, The Mad-Man and the Cultural Celebrity.
A Dualness of Self: Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe
Poe's Ontology: The Problem of Dying Women
Poe's Denouement: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance
Table of Contents:
Changing Faces: The Romantic, The Mad-Man and the Cultural Celebrity.
A Dualness of Self: Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe
Poe's Ontology: The Problem of Dying Women
Poe's Denouement: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance
From the Paper:
"The limitation of Rajan's essay, in specific regards to the male/female gender exchange, was first addressed by Dayan published her 1993 article 'Poe's Women: A Feminist Poe?' whereupon the idea of the feminine and the masculine interchange between male and female physicality came into circulation in Poe criticism. The "reversibility of all concepts", that Dayan argues is prevalent in all Poe texts, unsettles the predetermined notions we have socially accepted as masculine and feminine. She argues that "most men who write about Poe too easily divinize Poe's women" and that, despite Poe urging "us to examine critically what it might mean to work out a feminist epistemology", critical appraisal has still not drawn, definitively, the distinction between the masculine and feminine interchange. Poe's women are still divinized and it remains easy to accept that 'man' and 'masculinity', 'woman' and 'femininity' should be used synonymously when discussing Poe texts - the woman being in all things feminine and the male being in all things masculine. Following the critical principles outlined by Rajan and Dayan, however, it would seem that Poe's death of the beautiful 'woman' is then arguably the death of the beautiful feminine, the physical form that housed the feminine being of little or no concern to Poe. An important distinction must be made between body and the soul in our analysis Poe literature."Sample of Sources Used:
- Botting, F. Gothic. London and New York: Routledge, 1996.
- Boyd, E. Literary Blasphemies. 1927. New York: Greenwood, 1969.
- Carter, C. ""Not a Woman": The Murdered Muse in "Ligeia"." Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism, 2003: 45-57.
- Cooke, P. P. "Letter to Poe." Edgar Allan Poe Critical Assessments. Vol. 2. Edited by G Clarke. Mountfield: Helm Information Ltd, September 16, 1839.
- Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe. December 24, 2009. http://www.eapoe.org/works/letters/ (accessed September 10, 2010).
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Poe, Women and Cultural Celebrity (2012, March 28)
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"Poe, Women and Cultural Celebrity" 28 March 2012.
Web. 19 June. 2013. <http://www.academon.com/dissertation-or-thesis/poe-women-and-cultural-celebrity-150652/>