Edgar Allan Poe As Literary Critic by Edd Winfield Parks
Edgar Allan Poe was one of the first major critics to develop and refine his critical theories through magazine articles and book reviews. Edgar Allan Poe as Literary Critic focuses on his interest in establishing an aesthetic for magazine literature, and Parks has examined Poe's criticism at length. Poe's efforts in the field of literary criticism have often been condemned as a rationalization of his own personal limitations as a writer, but this study contends that his critical theories far surpass such a narrow interpretation. Rather, Poe was essentially a magazinist, and therefore emphasized brevity, unity, and totality of effect and placed the highest value on literary types best suited to periodical literature.-
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Adams and Jefferson
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The Language of the American South
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Camille, 1969
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Hidden in Plain Sight
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George Washington And The American Military Tradition
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Weathering the Storm
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The Power of the Porch
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A Colonial Southern Bookshelf
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Origins of a Southern Mosaic
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The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity
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A Web of Words
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Daughters of Time
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Teaching Equality
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Remembering Medgar Evers
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Moses, Jesus, and the Trickster in the Evangelical South
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Waking Their Neighbors Up
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Weaving Alliances with Other Women
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Becoming Confederates
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The South and the North in American Religion
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The North of the South
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The Weird South
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Myths and Men
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Three Modes of Modern Southern Fiction
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Southern Writers in the Modern World
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The Zombie Memes of Dixie
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The Hammers of Creation
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Blind No More
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Chattel Slavery and Wage Slavery
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Possum and Other Receipts for the Recovery of Southern Being
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Remapping Southern Literature
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Mixed Blood Indians
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A Consuming Fire
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Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers
[Parks] rightly considers Poe’s critical writing a congruent part of American literary culture in the first half of the nineteenth century and a heritage which we out to cherish. . . [He has] provided an excellent introduction to the subject, with straightforward analyses, objective judgments, clear style, and convenient organization.
The general reader will scarcely demand a more lucid and balanced study of Poe’s career as a ‘magazinist’ than the present one.
EDD WINFIELD PARKS held degrees from Harvard and Vanderbilt. He was a member of the English Department at the University of Georgia where he was an Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor of English. He published a volume of poetry and fourteen other books on the general subjects of American literature and literary criticism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780820334851 |
| ISBN 10 | 0820334855 |
| Title | Edgar Allan Poe As Literary Critic |
| Author | Edd Winfield Parks |
| Series | Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
| Year published | 2010-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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