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Poe and the Subversion of American Literature - Satire, Fantasy, Critique (Paperback)
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 In Poe and the Subversion of
American Literature, Robert T. Tally Jr. argues that Edgar Allan
Poe is best understood, not merely as a talented artist or canny
magazinist, but primarily as a practical joker who employs satire
and fantasy to poke fun at an emergent nationalist discourse
circulating in the United States. Poe's satirical and fantastic
mode, on display even in his apparently serious short stories and
literary criticism, undermines the earnest attempts to establish a
distinctively national literature in the nineteenth century. In
retrospect, Poe's work also subtly subverts the tenets of an
institutionalized American Studies in the twentieth century. Tally
interprets Poe's life and works in light of his own social milieu
and in relation to the disciplinary field of American literary
studies, finding Poe to be neither the poete maudit of popular
mythology nor the representative American writer revealed by recent
scholarship. Rather, Poe is an untimely figure whose work
ultimately makes a mockery of those who would seek to contain it.
Drawing upon Gilles Deleuze's distinction between nomad thought and
state philosophy, Tally argues that Poe's varied literary and
critical writings represent an alternative to American literature.
Through his satirical critique of U.S. national culture and his
otherworldly projection of a postnational space of the imagination,
Poe establishes a subterranean, nomadic, and altogether worldly
literary practice.
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