Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5325/edgallpoerev.24.1.0021
John Gruesser
Abstract:This article looks at Edgar Allan Poe's "Hop-Frog" in connection with revenge, one of the oldest and richest themes in literature. As the author has done in connection with "The Cask of Amontillado," this article offers a generalized biographical interpretation of this 1849 story, linking it to Poe's February 1845 essay "Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House" with its emphasis on "fat," exploitive "editors and proprietors," as well as his September 1845 "Marginalia" piece about the sorry state of the American publishing industry. Contending that the story must be read vis-à-vis not only enslavement and slave rebellion, as several critics have done, but also colonization, this article casts doubt on claims that Poe used the tale to settle scores with personal enemies or to revenge himself on the reading public. A brief coda argues that in "Hop-Frog" Poe does not simply avenge himself on those responsible both for his own exploitation as "a poor devil author" and the colonization of American literature generally. Rather, he counterbalances the gruesome, fiery climax with a celebratory compendium of many of his greatest hits through allusions to at least eleven of his writings published between 1835 and 1846.
摘要：本文将爱伦·坡的《跳蛙》与复仇联系起来，复仇是文学史上最古老、最丰富的主题之一。正如作者在《阿蒙提拉多的木桶》中所做的那样，本文对这个1849年的故事进行了概括的传记解读，将其与坡1845年2月的文章《监狱之家杂志的一些秘密》（Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison House）联系起来，该文章强调“肥胖的、剥削性的”编辑和所有者，以及他1845年9月关于美国出版业糟糕状况的文章《边缘》（Marginalia）。这篇文章认为，这个故事不仅要像一些评论家所做的那样，与奴役和奴隶叛乱作对照，还要与殖民作对照，这让人们对爱伦·坡利用这个故事与个人敌人算账或向读者复仇的说法产生了怀疑。一个简短的结尾部分认为，在《跳蛙》中，坡并没有简单地向那些对他作为“一个可怜的魔鬼作家”的剥削和美国文学的殖民化负有责任的人复仇。相反，他通过引用他在1835年至1846年间出版的至少11部作品，用一本庆祝他的许多最伟大作品的简编来平衡这一可怕而激烈的高潮。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5325/edgallpoerev.24.1.0122
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5325/edgallpoerev.24.1.0080
Christopher P. Semtner
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5325/edgallpoerev.24.1.0090
Sami Atassi
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5325/edgallpoerev.24.1.0034
Sławomir Studniarz
Abstract:This article examines the impact of Schelling's philosophy, especially his concept of the Absolute, on two of Poe's tales: "Morella" and "The Fall of the House of Usher." It begins with a focused overview of Schelling's chief doctrines, in particular his famous system of identity, and because this system was forged under the influence of Spinoza's monism, the revival of the Dutch philosopher's ideas in post-Kantian German philosophy is also briefly discussed. The article expands on one of the outcomes of this philosophy at the turn of the nineteenth century, namely, the perceived deficiency of philosophical and scientific inquiry and the ensuing privileging of art. As has been recognized, this shift had a direct bearing on emerging Romantic aesthetics, and its emphasis on the symbol as a way of conveying the inexpressible, of revealing the conceptually ungraspable. Both the Romantic theory of the symbol and Schelling's idea of the Absolute provide a conceptual framework for understanding the philosophical resonances of "Morella" and "The Fall of the House of Usher."
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Pub Date : 2023-02-18DOI: 10.5325/edgallpoerev.23.2.0209
Judith Ellen Anderson
Abstract:It is a “terrible” subject Poe admits in a letter to Annie Richmond about his latest story, “Hop-Frog.” It may seem surprising, therefore, to find that the book of Esther is an influential source for this tale and its subject. Yet, as this article argues, this biblical story’s footprints are discernable. Esther’s comedic characterizations, motifs, diction, and stylistic approaches reappear in Poe’s story, often with striking similitude. However, in accordance with his stated criteria for originality and his bent toward ironic opposition, Poe upends the biblical account. Esther’s story of heroic reversals aided by divine providence in a joyful triumph over monarchical oppression and death becomes a dark counternarrative of human madness and vengeance on a godless stage. The seriocomic vision in “Hop-Frog” retains the outlines and substance of its original source but in the form of a negative image with a distinctly original effect.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-18DOI: 10.5325/edgallpoerev.23.2.0228
Paul Lewis
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Pub Date : 2023-02-18DOI: 10.5325/edgallpoerev.23.2.0163
Dennis W. Eddings
Abstract:This article is in response to Steven E. Kemper’s “Poe, Twain, and Limburger Cheese,” which argues that Mark Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story” spoofs Poe’s “A Descent into the Maelström” by parodying its style and technique. After suggesting that Kemper’s argument has a few problems, this article posits that it is rather Poe’s “The Oblong Box” and “The Purloined Letter” that Mark Twain uses to spoof Poe by citing definite connections between the works. The article then concludes that “Descent” does have a connection with “The Invalid’s Story” in that both are tall tales.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-18DOI: 10.5325/edgallpoerev.23.2.0250
Travis Montgomery
Abstract:In 1969, Robert D. Jacobs broke new ground with Poe: Journalist and Critic, the first truly inclusive study of the critical writings that Edgar Allan Poe produced throughout his career. According to Jacobs, those texts could not be understood apart from the journalistic world in which Poe wrote them and without reference to the principles on which he relied while evaluating literary works. Those laws derived from Common Sense philosophy, and of particular importance to Poe, Jacobs argued, was the notion that three faculties—the reason, the moral sense, and the taste—directed mental life. Responsive to pleasure, the taste allowed a person to appreciate art, so Poe’s insistence on unity was tied to the belief that all the elements within in a work of literature would please if they had a single, focused effect on the reader. Enlightenment-era psychology was, in short, central to Poe’s critical practice, the development of which Jacobs mapped throughout Poe: Journalist and Critic—a work that has become a classic in the field. Attending to Poe’s work as a writer for magazines, Jacobs not only stimulated scholarly interest in Poe’s critical reviews but also encouraged the examination of his writings as products of nineteenth-century print culture. Seminal in Poe studies, Poe: Journalist and Critic remains useful for anyone who wants to know Poe as he was in life rather than legend.
1969年，罗伯特·d·雅各布斯(Robert D. Jacobs)的《坡:记者与评论家》(Poe: Journalist and Critic)开创了新的领域，这是对埃德加·爱伦·坡在其职业生涯中创作的批评性作品的第一次真正包容性的研究。根据雅各布斯的说法，这些文本不能脱离坡写作的新闻世界，不能脱离他在评价文学作品时所依赖的原则来理解。雅各布斯认为，这些规律源于常识哲学，对爱伦坡来说尤其重要的是，他认为有三种能力——理性、道德感和以品味为导向的精神生活。对愉悦感的反应，使人能够欣赏艺术，所以爱伦坡坚持统一，因为他相信，如果一部文学作品中的所有元素都能给读者带来单一的、集中的影响，那么它们就会令人愉悦。简而言之，启蒙时代的心理学是坡的批评实践的核心，雅各布斯在《坡:记者与批评》中描绘了坡的发展，这部作品已成为该领域的经典。雅各布斯以杂志作家的身份关注坡的作品，他不仅激发了人们对坡的评论的学术兴趣，还鼓励人们把坡的作品作为19世纪印刷文化的产物来研究。《坡:记者与评论家》是坡研究的奠基性著作，对于那些想了解坡生平而非传奇人物的人来说，这本书仍然很有用。
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