American literature | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 12 pages of analysis & critique of American literature.

American literature | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 12 pages of analysis & critique of American literature.
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SOURCE: “Guiomar's Poetics of Death in ‘The Raven,’” in Poe Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, December, 1982, pp. 38-40.

In the following excerpt, Baguley offers a reading of “The Raven” based on Michael Guiomar's Principes d'une esthétique de la mort. According to Baguley, the raven becomes “a harbinger … of irretrievable, even Diabolical or Infernal, destruction” in Poe's poem.

Few groups of English-speaking critics are more thoroughly informed about critical developments in their field in France than Poe specialists.1 The primary purpose of this article is to make a modest contribution to that long-standing tradition by bringing to the attention of Poe critics and readers a book of which I have found no mention in connection with Poe studies, namely Michael Guiomar's Principes d'une esthétique de la mort.2 Admittedly, even though this book does contain numerous references to the American writer, it does not deal directly with Poe and would...

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