Unquestionably one of America's major writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was far ahead of his time in his vision of a special area of human experience--the "inner world" of dream, hallucination, and imagination. He wrote fiction, poetry, and criticism...

With a relatively small volume of work, some fifty poems, a short novel, about seventy short stories, and a roughly equivalent volume of essays, Edgar Allan Poe has exerted a substantial influence on American and world literature. He may be regarded with...

From the perspective of more than a century and a half, the achievements of Edgar Allan Poe as a man of letters are extraordinary. He may be regarded without too much exaggeration as the single most important influence on the development of an entire poe...

CASE HISTORIES By Kate Atkinson Little, Brown. 312 pp. $23.95 The population of Cambridge, England, is well over 100,000, but you wouldn't think it was any larger than a sewing circle from reading Case Histories, the most recent offering from British...

Early on in the story of Edgar Allan Poe, the latest in PBS' "American Masters" series (tonight at 10 on Channel 2), author Joyce Carol Oates remarks that one of the Boston-born poet's greatest talents was in the "art of leaving things out." That...

For Lori Schwartz, a happy mom with a decade of wedded bliss under her belt, the greeting card featuring a bloodied, ripped out heart was perfect."It's Valentine's Day, so here's a card with a heart inside," it read. "I'd tell you whose it is, but...

For Lori Schwartz, a happy mom with a decade of wedded bliss under her belt, the greeting card featuring a bloodied, ripped out heart was perfect."It's Valentine's Day, so here's a card with a heart inside," it read. "I'd tell you whose it is, but...

In the following essay, Pillai considers "The Tell-Tale Heart" as a text that expresses a complicity between the fictional narrator and the reader of the narrative, and a breach in the conventional border between literature and criticism; this breach results in what Pillai calls a narrative's "afterlife. "

In the following essay, Rajan asserts that the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" is female, and contends that a new, gender-marked rereading of the tale, as filtered through theories of narrativity inspired by Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and Hélène Cixous, reveals "The narrator's exploration of her female situation in a particular feminist discourse. "

In the following essay, Rajan contends that by using analytic tropes developed by Jacques Lacan and Helene Cixous, the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" can be identified as female.

Analyze Poe's treatment toward the power differential theme in "The Tell Tale Heart", "Metzengerstein" and "Hop Frog."

In this essay it demonstrates the differences between "Tell Tale Heart" and "Psycho."

Essay discusses the sanity of the main character in "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe.