Edgar Allan Poe: A Writer for the World

 

English 402, the departmental senior seminar, is a capstone course conducted as a research seminar. This semester's topic is Edgar Allan Poe and his extensive influence on literature and the sister arts throughout the world.

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Meets Spring 2006 in the Achurch Room, Capers 111, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 8:00 to 8:50

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Overview

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American original -

a luminous literary theorist, an erratic genius, and an analyst of the human psyche par excellence. The scope and diversity of these achievements, as well as the compellingly dramatic character of Poe's life, are well known and remain an enduringly popular subject.

But Poe was arguably also the most influential writer ever to emerge from America. His influence on American and European art was extraordinarily wide. Very few major authors, in fact, do not have something about their lives or their works that doesn't remind one, in some way, of Poe.

The focus of this course will be on how Poe's fictional techniques and thematic preoccupations, as well as his aesthetic theories, his cosmogyny, and even to some degree his own life, show up in major texts by world authors. We may also give some consideration to his influence on the visual arts, film, and music.


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