Studies in American Fiction, September 22nd, 1995
Author Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin stories and his description of the character Dupin's pain and professional strategies for relieving it offer Poe a vehicle to honestly portray the workings of genius. His underlined insistence on the function of the material and the materialistic in his detective tales is what makes them the significant psychological statements that they are. Dupin's expressed beliefs of the correlation between mental and physical seems to be Poe's as well.
The reader of Poe's Dupin stories is caught between two contrary models of Dupin's professional status. On the one hand, Su...
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