Poe’s insisted dramatization of his characters’ psychological vulnerability is a major reason for his appeal in a contemporary world dominated by anxiety and fascinated by the representations of its most disturbing and violent exploits. His fictional world in which obsession and schizophrenia, alienation, depression and hallucination are strikingly illustrated, coexists with a keen interest in rationality, as evidenced both by his tales of ratiocination and by a series of critical essays which address major issues of his poetics. This amalgam sheds light upon his vision of the literary text as a precise intellectual “system”—a notion that has deeply challenged the mind of contemporary readers.
" 'A Method in Madness': Considerations on E. A. Poe's Artistic Mdernity" / Rubeo, Ugo. - STAMPA. - (2010), pp. 57-63.
" 'A Method in Madness': Considerations on E. A. Poe's Artistic Mdernity"
RUBEO, Ugo
2010
Abstract
Poe’s insisted dramatization of his characters’ psychological vulnerability is a major reason for his appeal in a contemporary world dominated by anxiety and fascinated by the representations of its most disturbing and violent exploits. His fictional world in which obsession and schizophrenia, alienation, depression and hallucination are strikingly illustrated, coexists with a keen interest in rationality, as evidenced both by his tales of ratiocination and by a series of critical essays which address major issues of his poetics. This amalgam sheds light upon his vision of the literary text as a precise intellectual “system”—a notion that has deeply challenged the mind of contemporary readers.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.