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Summary of Criticism Purloined LTR
Summary of Criticism Purloined LTR
Summary of Criticism Purloined LTR
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The Purloined Letter
Edgar Alan Poe
( E-text remote;
Local: "The Cask of Amantillado" (vocabulary and E-Text); "Tale-Tale Heart" with
websites on Poe)
A structuralist
Lacan's
Derrida's
Foucaultian Reading Psychobiography
reading
interpretation interpretation
Paradoxes:
1. between simplicity of the case and its "oddity"
2. between revelation and concealment (and concealment+ revealation)
3. Minister D's being both a poet and a mathmatician
4. the stories Dupin tells: "take advice!" (tautological) and "the school boy's winning all
the marbles" (losing to win, identification with the opponent)
Greimas' semantic rectangle: (two pairs: one of opposition, the other of contradiction)
King
The prefect