Edgar Allan Poe's "The tell-tale heart" and other stories

Bloom, Harold. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781604133882 (acid-free paper)
Physical Description: print
vii, 212 p. ; 25 cm.
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2009.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Editor's note -- Introduction - Grotesques and arabesques - The ironic double in Poe's "The cask of amontillado" - A feminist rereading of Poe's "The tell-tale heart" - A note on the public and the private in literature : the literature of "acting out" - "Observe how healthily-how calmly I can tell you the whole story" : moral insanity and Edgar Allan Poe's "The tell-tale heart" - Detective fiction, psychoanalysis, and the analytic sublime - Death and its moments : the end of the reader in history - Frantic forensic oratory : Poe's "The tell-tale heart" - House of mirrors : Edgar Allan Poe's "The fall of the house of Usher" - A tale by Poe -- Chronology -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.