Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries

Kopley, Richard

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“…Often considered as the leading figure and inventor of detective stories (Esplin, 2016;Kopley, 2008;Rachman, 2010;Yang, 2010), Poe, together with Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville are prominent authors of American Dark Romanticism whose works influence the development of Gothic literature in America and England (Kaplan, 2018;Kopley, 2010). Poe's tales, specifically, show evidence of creepy symbols, dreadful themes, and psychological effects of guilt and sin characteristic of grotesque literature (Møllegaard & Belcher, 2013;Sommerfeld, 2018).…”

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Contemplating COVID-19 through disease and death in three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe

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2021

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Wort-case scenarios depicted in literary works may function to mourn and warn people about the real situation, such as the spread of COVID-19 that has altered worldwide life drastically. This study offers a reflection on the current pandemic time through a close reading of selected American classic literary works. The imagination of fear, isolation, and mask-wearing in Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories is resonant with the new expressions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Three short stories by Poe, i.e., ‘The Masque of the Red Death’, ‘The Cask of Amontillado’, and ‘The Sphinx’ are chosen for examination using the thematic analysis method. Repeated reading of the short stories shows that parallels can be drawn between these stories and today’s phenomenon about anxiety, social restriction, and health protocols. What can be implied from the analysis are as follows: (1) Fear of the disease results in the characters’ added distress, (2) The characters’ aberrant behaviour as to overprotect themselves is exacerbated by the dreadful situation, and (3) Poe’s obsession with dread and death to shock the readers can be historically traced through his own inner predicaments, ill-health, and the 1832 Cholera contagion. In conclusion, the findings resonate with the COVID-19 epidemic’s upshots.

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2021

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“…What I would find there would lead eventually to my book Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries. 2 I found on the first floor of this massive square building many tables with piles of old copies of the newspaper the Nantucket Inquirer. I was hoping for…”

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Adventures with Poe and Hawthorne

Kopley¹

2013

The Edgar Allan Poe Review

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Scholarship can be exciting, and so can the story behind the scholarship. This essay-in its earlier incarnation, a talk-recounts my explorations involving Poe's Dupin stories (1987-91; 2004-8) and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1992-2003, work that led to The Threads of "The Scarlet Letter" (2003) and Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries (2008Mysteries ( , 2011. My scholarly peregrinations took me from Nantucket to Colindale, England (for Poe), and from Salem to San Marino, California (for Hawthorne). My adventures involved identifying and following a trail of evidence, assisted by librarians and curators and sometimes-surprising serendipity. These adventures led to interpretive consequences concerning the genesis, form, and significance of a work. This essay conveys firsthand the pleasures of scholarly pursuit.

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Triplicity in Spencer-Brown, Lacan, and Poe

Kunze

2018

Lacan and the Nonhuman

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Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries

Cited by 29 publications

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Contemplating COVID-19 through disease and death in three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe

Contemplating COVID-19 through disease and death in three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe

Adventures with Poe and Hawthorne

Triplicity in Spencer-Brown, Lacan, and Poe

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