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...) produces one of the strangest bedroom scenes in American literature. In the tale that Poe declared “undoubtedly the best story I have written,” a nameless narrator endures the loss of his first wife, Ligeia, and the death of her hapless replacement, Rowena, before witnessing an impossible revival.1...

..., like Miriam herself, enigmatically in the shade. What, then, are we being asked to read here? Let me recall the place of Johnson’s intervention in the “Purloined Poe” debate: first came Jacques Lacan’s essay on Poe, then Jacques Derrida’s essay on Lacan on Poe, and after that John- son’s...

... and the understanding of a writer with respect to literature: what to do and how to do it in relation to what already exists. For instance, in [his study on] “The Raven,” Poe chooses “to show the modus operandi by which some one of my own works was put together. It is my design to render it manifest that no one...

... the two, such as sympathy, romantic friendship, marriage, or allegiance. The literary authors of the American Renaissance who form the core of Coviello’s study — Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman — all muddled the distinction between “friendship...

...: its predomi- nant figures were those that fused the two, such as sympathy, romantic friendship, marriage, or allegiance. The literary authors of the American Renaissance who form the core of Coviello’s study — Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman...

... the two, such as sympathy, romantic friendship, marriage, or allegiance. The literary authors of the American Renaissance who form the core of Coviello’s study — Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman — all muddled the distinction between “friendship...

..., marriage, or allegiance. The literary authors of the American Renaissance who form the core of Coviello’s study — Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman — all muddled the distinction between “friendship” and “sex” to varying degrees in service...

... the two, such as sympathy, romantic friendship, marriage, or allegiance. The literary authors of the American Renaissance who form the core of Coviello’s study — Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman — all muddled the distinction between “friendship...

... Poems: 1927–1979 , 84 . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux . Bishop Elizabeth . [n.d.] 2007 . “ Close, close all night .” In Edgar Allen Poe and the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems , edited by Quinn Alice , 141 . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux . Brontë Charlotte...

.... There is, of course, another reading to be made about letters, purloined and otherwise. But this is not the moment to make an argument for what “remains of the signi- fier when it has no more signification,” as Barbara Johnson argued in the case of Poe’s purloined letter.13 Instead, signification abounds...

... had remained to that point. Friar had challenged Merrill, while still the younger man’s mentor at Amherst, to get to work on a long poem, but this assignment Merrill refused even to consider carrying out, responding by insisting (as Edgar Allan Poe influentially...

... . 2015 . The Limits of Critique . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Foltz Mary Catherine . 2008 . “ The Excremental Ethics of Samuel R. Delany .” SubStance 37 , no. 2 : 41 – 55 . Frank Adam . 2015 . Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol . New York : Fordham...

... Cheah and Elizabeth Grosz, “Of Being-­Two: Introduction,” diacritics 28, no. 1 (1998): 7. 26. Irigaray, Conversations, 2. 27. For an excellent example of this type of defense, see Danielle Poe, “Can Luce Iriga- ray’s Notion of Sexual Difference Be Applied to Transsexual and Transgender Nar...

... a “religious writer” who, “like Poe,” uses “the horror genre . . . to test the boundaries of life, generate feelings of wonder and awe” (“Running Gliick’s observation also indicates the affinity both writers have for the work of Georges Bataille, who viewed sexuality and religion as two manifes...

... cannot choose between contingency and agency, accident and meaning. In these central questions of the text, we cannot always tell the difference. In Johnson’s (1980) essay on Edgar Allan Poe, Lacan, and Der- rida, which ends with the collapse of such supposed oppositions as determinism and chance...

... of such a gesture (as the bust in Poe’s “Raven” is of Athena). This divine identifica- tion, this act of monumentality, suggests the culmination of Moore’s attempt to live celibacy as a nonstigmatized identity. “Moorish gorgeousness” can be found in the face of an old spinster as well as in an old watch...

... whiteness importantly reveals the ways in which the “Africanist” presence haunts the American literary imaginary as the grounds on which “American identity” is constructed and destabilized. Her turn to canonical authors such as Willa Cather, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, William Faulkner...