French Forum, September 22nd, 2005
In Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story, The Purloined Letter, the contents of the mysterious epistle are never revealed; rather, it is the place and the successive replacements of the letter and its facsimile that comprise the narrative. (1) For Poe, the value of the letter's content appears to be secondary to the itinerary of a signifier whose path the author traces in the story. (2) Just as The Purloined Letter traces the migration of the letter within the fictional world of the text, this paper proposes to examine an earlier instance of purloined letters whose mobility sparked by misappr...
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