Critical Insights: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Table of Contents
THE TALES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
About This Volume, by Steven Frye
The Tales and Their Author
On Poe's Tales, by Steven Frye
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe, by Charles E. May
The Paris Review Perspective, by Nathaniel Rich
Critical Contexts
A Debt Owed, a Debt Paid: Poe's Literary Cultural Heritage,
by Jeff Grieneisen and Courtney Ruffner
Introduction to Poe Criticism, by Susan Amper
"Hypocrite Lecteur": The Reader as Accomplice in Poe's Short Stories,
by Matthew Bolton
Edgar Allan Poe's Fantastic Short Stories, by Santiago
Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan
Critical Readings
Irresistible Impulses: Edgar Allan Poe and the Insanity Defense,
by John Cleman
The Limits of Reason: Poe's Deluded Detectives, by J. Gerald Kennedy
What Happens in "The Fall of the House of Usher"?, by J. O. Bailey
Poe and the Powers of the Mind, by Robert Shulman
The Motive for Murder in "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe,
by Elena V. Baraban
The Problem of Realism in "The Gold Bug", by J. Woodrow Hassell, Jr.
The Self-Consuming Narrator in Poe's "Ligeia" and "Usher", by
Ronald Bieganowski
Poe's Re-Vision: The Recovery of the Second Story, by Cynthia S. Jordan
Absolute Poe: His System of Transcendental Racism, by Maurice S. Lee
Resources
Chronology of Edgar Allan Poe's Life
Works by Edgar Allan Poe
Bibliography
About the Editor
About The Paris Review
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index