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The Ecosystem of the Foreign Language Learner
by Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel Magdalena SzyszkaThis volume examines selected aspects of the foreign language learning process from an ecological perspective, adopting a holistic view on complex interrelations among and within organisms (L2 language learners) and their milieus (family, school and society). First of all, the personal ecosystem of the learner is taken into consideration, whereby two powerful influences are intertwined: cognitive and affective aspects. The learning space formed by the individual is largely shaped by their affective states coexisting in conjunction with their cognitive processes. Moreover, this specific space is also modified by a wider array of other personal ecosystems or those of cultures. Hence, the ecosystem of the foreign language learner is also subject to influences coming from sociocultural leverage that can be represented by people they know, like parents and language teachers, who can both directly and indirectly manipulate their ecosystem. At the same time other important forces, such as culture as a ubiquitous element in the foreign language learning process, also have the power to shape that ecosystem. Accordingly, the book is divided into three parts covering a range of topics related to these basic dimensions of foreign language acquisition (the cognitive, affective and socio-cultural). Part I, Affective Interconnections, focuses on the body of original empirical research into the affective domain of not only L2 language learners but also non-native language teachers. Part II, Cognitive Interconnections, reports on contributions on language learners' linguistic processing and cognitive representations of concepts. The closing part, Socio-cultural Interconnections, provides new insights into language learning processes as they are affected by social and cultural factors.
Écrire comme on aimerait lire: Parfaire ses compétences et son style
by Catherine Black Louise ChaputÉcrire comme on aimerait lire est un ouvrage destiné à des étudiants avancés de français. Il vise à étendre les connaissances en matière de vocabulaire et de style afin de libérer l’écriture. Il s’articule autour de quatre axes : la précision lexicale, l’amélioration des phrases, l’emploi des figures de style et la bonne compréhension des dénotations et connotations. En tant que tel, il sera aussi un outil de référence pour la traduction de la L1 vers la L2. Cet ouvrage vise les étudiants de français des niveaux DALF C1 et C2 du CECRL (Cadre Européen Commun de Référence pour les Langues) et ceux au niveau Advanced High de l’échelle des compétences de ACTFL (the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages).
Écrire des personnages: Créer des protagonistes que les lecteurs vont adorer
by Susan PalmquistAvez-vous du mal à créer vos personnages ? Votre livre a été rejeté plusieurs fois ? Et pourtant, vous êtes certain que votre intrigue est géniale. L'intrigue n'est pas toujours ce que les lecteurs se rappellent le plus de votre livre, mais plutôt un ou plusieurs personnages qui capturent leur attention, suscitent leur intérêt et les obligent à poursuivre la lecture pour découvrir la suite. Ce sont les personnages de votre histoire qui invitent le lecteur dès la première page et qui lui disent : « J'ai une histoire à vous raconter, voulez-vous m'accompagner ? » C’est pourquoi, j’ai écrit ce guide. Ce petit livre n'est pas exactement un guide sur comment créer un bon personnage. Il s’agit d'un ensemble d'exercices à essayer, afin de créer des personnages réalistes et plus vrais que nature, à chaque fois que vous vous asseyez pour écrire. Ceci vous permettra de réduire les chances que votre livre soit rejeté ou que les lecteurs ne puissent pas s’identifier à vos personnages. Une fois que vous aurez terminé les dix exercices, vous connaîtrez votre personnage aussi bien que votre meilleur ami et vous le connaîtrez peut-être mieux que vous-même.
Écrire une romance en un mois: Guide pour écrire une romance en 30 jours
by Rachelle AyalaSouhaitez vous savoir... — Comment déchiffrer le code d’une romance à l’intrigue unique moderne et contemporaine ? — Comment être motivé pour écrire et terminer vos idées d’histoire d’amour ? — Dans quelle mesure les auteurs qui réussissent rédigent-ils de manière cohérente et publient-ils un travail de haute qualité à intervalles réguliers ? — Comment utiliser des personnages forts et sympathiques et toucher des points d’intrigue de romance bien connus pour créer votre histoire d’amour unique ? — Comment un groupe d’écrivains solidaires peut-il se motiver mutuellement à écrire plus vite et mieux ? — Pourquoi définir un objectif de nombre de mots quotidien n’est pas le meilleur moyen de suivre vos progrès ? — Comment maintenir votre motivation, livre après livre, et publier régulièrement ? — Comment se faire des amis pour écrire et former votre propre groupe d’auteurs de romance pour s’encourager mutuellement à une plus grande excellence ? Dans ce livre, vous apprendrez une méthode simple pour écrire une romance en peu de temps. Vous découvrirez également pourquoi écrire aux côtés d’un groupe d’auteurs partageant les mêmes idées est un excellent moyen d’améliorer votre productivité et de vous remonter le moral, sans oublier de vous rendre plus fort et de vous aider tout au long de votre parcours d’écriture et de publication. Une grande partie de cela commence avec vous, vos croyances, vos désirs et votre foi en vous-même. Cependant, associez cela à des techniques éprouvées et à des processus qui fonctionnent, vous pouvez faire passer votre écriture au niveau supérieur, compléter vos histoires d’amour plus rapidement et le faire régulièrement. Écrire une romance en un mois est une méthode d’écriture d’un roman d’amour avec l’aide d’une communauté d’�
Écrire votre premier roman d'amour Un guide étape par étape: Un mini guide
by Susan PalmquistVous envisagez d'écrire un roman d'amour mais ne savez pas par où commencer ? Peut-être n'êtes-vous même pas sûr que la romance soit votre genre ? Peut-être que vous avez écrit la première version de votre histoire de romance, mais vous avez besoin de quelques conseils d'initiés pour le faire pertect ! Que vous soyez un écrivain débutant ou quelqu'un qui a besoin d'un peu plus d'instruction. Writing Your First Romance Novel est un ouvrage de référence. steo sude thalleads vou throush al les imponantelements Dans cet e-book, vous trouverez des conseils sur- Trouver le bon sous-genre de romance pour vous Comment construire votre histoire Créer des personnages mémorables Comment savoir si ce sont les bons personnages qui racontent votre histoire ? Comment contrôler le rythme de votre histoire ? Comment rédiger des dialogues de premier ordre à chaque fois que vous écrivez comment soumettre votre manuscrit Tinisned Ce guide pratique est une lecture rapide et facile pour tout écrivain de romance en herbe.
The Ecstasies of Roland Barthes (Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory #26)
by Mary Bittner WisemanIn this book, first published in 1989, Mary Bittner Wiseman interprets Roland Barthes’s experiments as efforts to reposition the human subject with respect to language and to time in order to let the subject escape from the language of a particular culture and the present time. With her insistent pushing against the boundaries of our standard academic assumptions, Mary Bittner Wiseman succeeds in interpreting Barthes’s effort to join the traditional and the new. This title will be of interest to students of literature and philosophy.
The Ecstasies of Roland Barthes (Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory)
by Mary Bittner WisemanIn this book, first published in 1989, Mary Bittner Wiseman interprets Roland Barthes’s experiments as efforts to reposition the human subject with respect to language and to time in order to let the subject escape from the language of a particular culture and the present time. With her insistent pushing against the boundaries of our standard academic assumptions, Mary Bittner Wiseman succeeds in interpreting Barthes’s effort to join the traditional and the new. This title will be of interest to students of literature and philosophy.
Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones
by Daniel Mendelsohn“The role of the critic,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes, “is to mediate intelligently and stylishly between a work and its audience; to educate and edify in an engaging and, preferably, entertaining way.” His latest collection exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made him “required reading for anyone interested in dissecting culture” (The Daily Beast). In Ecstasy and Terror, Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his insights through his training as a scholar of classical antiquity in illuminating and sometimes surprising ways.Many of these essays look with fresh eyes at our culture’s Greek and Roman models: some find an arresting modernity in canonical works (Bacchae, the Aeneid), while others detect a “Greek DNA” in our responses to national traumas such as the Boston Marathon bombings and the assassination of JFK. There are pieces on contemporary literature, from the “aesthetics of victimhood” in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life to the uncomfortable mixture of art and autobiography in novels by Henry Roth, Ingmar Bergman, and Karl Ove Knausgård. Mendelsohn considers pop culture, too, in essays on the feminism of Game of Thrones and on recent films about artificial intelligence—a subject, he reminds us, that was already of interest to Homer.This collection also brings together for the first time a number of the award-winning memoirist’s personal essays, including his “critic’s manifesto” and a touching reminiscence of his boyhood correspondence with the historical novelist Mary Renault, who inspired him to study the Classics.
Ecstasy in the Classroom: Trance, Self, and the Academic Profession in Medieval Paris (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies)
by Ayelet Even-EzraCan ecstatic experiences be studied with the academic instruments of rational investigation? What kinds of religious illumination are experienced by academically minded people? And what is the specific nature of the knowledge of God that university theologians of the Middle Ages enjoyed compared with other modes of knowing God, such as rapture, prophecy, the beatific vision, or simple faith? Ecstasy in the Classroom explores the interface between academic theology and ecstatic experience in the first half of the thirteenth century, formative years in the history of the University of Paris, medieval Europe’s “fountain of knowledge.” It considers little-known texts by William of Auxerre, Philip the Chancellor, William of Auvergne, Alexander of Hales, and other theologians of this community, thus creating a group portrait of a scholarly discourse. It seeks to do three things. The first is to map and analyze the scholastic discourse about rapture and other modes of cognition in the first half of the thirteenth century. The second is to explicate the perception of the self that these modes imply: the possibility of transformation and the complex structure of the soul and its habits. The third is to read these discussions as a window on the predicaments of a newborn community of medieval professionals and thereby elucidate foundational tensions in the emergent academic culture and its social and cultural context. Juxtaposing scholastic questions with scenes of contemporary courtly romances and reading Aristotle’s Analytics alongside hagiographical anecdotes, Ecstasy in the Classroom challenges the often rigid historiographical boundaries between scholastic thought and its institutional and cultural context.
The Ecstasy of Influence
by Jonathan LethemWhat's a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what's contemporary culture supposed to do with novelists? InThe Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the 'white elephant' role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing range of answers. A constellation of previously published pieces and new essays as provocative and idiosyncratic as any he's written, this volume sheds light on an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring and Marlon Brando. Then there are investigations of a shelf's worth of his literary models and contemporaries: Norman Mailer, Philip K. Dick, Bret Easton Ellis, James Wood, and others. And, writing about Brooklyn, his father, and his sojourn through two decades of writing, one of the greats of contemporary American literature sheds an equally strong light on himself. Funny and unfettered,The Ecstasy of Influencesimmers with direct challenges to conventional wisdom and deep insights into the kaleidoscopic nature of artistic vision, the primacy of the writer in the cultural marketplace, and the way the author's own experiences have fuelled his creative passions.
Ecstatic Émigré: An Ethics of Practice
by Claudia KeelanMost think of an émigré as one who leaves her native land to find home in another. Claudia Keelan, in essays both personal and critical, enlists poetic company for her journey, engaging both canonical and common figures, from Gertrude Stein to a prophetic Las Vegas cab driver named Caesar. Mapping her own peripatetic evolution in poetry and her nomadic life, she also engages with Christian and Buddhist doctrines on the virtues of dispossession. ? Ecstatic Émigré pays homage to poets from Thoreau and Whitman to Alice Notley, all of whom share a commitment to living and writing in the moment. Keelan asks the same questions about the growth of flowers or the meaning of bioluminescence as she does about the poetics of John Cage or George Oppen. Her originality is grounded by the ways in which she connects poetic principles with the spiritual concepts of via negativa demonstrated both in St. John of the Cross and Mahayana Buddhism. In addition, her essays demonstrate an activist spirit and share a commitment to the passive resistance demonstrated in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s concept of the “beloved community” and philosopher Simone Weil’s dedication to “exile.”
'Ecstatic Sound': Music and Individuality in the Work of Thomas Hardy (The Nineteenth Century Series)
by John HughesThis book studies the ways Hardy writes about music, and argues that this focus allows for a close and varied investigation of the affective dimensions of his poetry and fiction, and his recurrent preoccupations with time, community and love. Throughout his work Hardy associates music with moments of individual expression and relatedness. For him, music provokes a response to life that is inseparable from what gives life value, as well as being incompatible with his increasingly conscious vision of personal and social limitation. The first two chapters trace how this ironic disjunction is evident in the novels and the tales, while exploring in detail how they represent and evoke the spiritual and emotional transports of musical experience. In a corresponding way, the third and fourth chapters concentrate on how, within the poetry, music works as a vehicle of inspiration and memory, recurrently surprising the conscious self with intimations of other potentials of expression. In the fifth chapter, the focus falls on Hardy's own philosophical reading, and thus on his notebooks and letters, so as to revisit in an altered context many of the issues that have been opened up by the book's emphasis on his literary representations of musical experience-issues of individuality, of unconscious and bodily experience, of literary language. Finally, although the book does incorporate some biographical detail about Thomas Hardy's lifelong passion for playing and collecting music, it predominantly works through close reading, while also drawing at points on literary theoretical texts, where these offer ways of articulating the broad questions of literary convention and representation that arise.
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by Barbara W. MakarA systematic, phonics-based early reading program that includes: the most practice for every skill, decodable readers for every skill, and reinforcement materials--help struggling students succeed in the regular classroom
Ed Brubaker: Conversations (Conversations with Comic Artists Series)
by Terrence R. WandtkeEd Brubaker (b. 1966) has emerged as one of the most popular, significant figures in art comics since the 1990s. Most famous as the man who killed Captain America in 2007, Brubaker's work on company-owned properties such as Batman and Captain America and creator-owned series like Criminal and Fatale live up to the usual expectations for the superhero and crime genres. And yet, Brubaker layers his stories with a keen self-awareness, applying his expansive knowledge of American comic book history to invigorate his work and challenge the dividing line between popular entertainment and high art. This collection of interviews explores the sophisticated artist's work, drawing upon the entire length of the award-winning Brubaker's career. With his stints writing Catwoman, Gotham Central, and Daredevil, Brubaker advanced the work of crime comic book writers through superhero stories informed by hard-boiled detective fiction and film noir. During his time on Captain America and his series Sleeper and Incognito, Brubaker revisited the conventions of the espionage thriller. With double agents who lose themselves in their jobs, the stories expose the arbitrary superhero standards of good and evil. In his series Criminal, Brubaker offered complex crime stories and, with a clear sense of the complicated lost world before the Comics Code, rejected crusading critic Fredric Wertham's myth of the innocence of early comics. Overall, Brubaker demonstrates his self-conscious methodology in these often little-known and hard-to-find interviews, worthwhile conversations in their own right as well as objects of study for both scholars and researchers.
Ed Kennedy's War: V-E Day, Censorship, and the Associated Press (From Our Own Correspondent)
by John Maxwell Hamilton Ed Kennedy Julia Kennedy Cochran Tom CurleyOn May 7, 1945, Associated Press reporter Ed Kennedy became the most famous -- or infamous -- American correspondent of World War II. On that day in France, General Alfred Jodl signed the official documents as the Germans surrendered to the Allies. Army officials allowed a select number of reporters, including Kennedy, to witness this historic moment -- but then instructed the journalists that the story was under military embargo. In a courageous but costly move, Kennedy defied the military embargo and broke the news of the Allied victory. His scoop generated instant controversy. Rival news organizations angrily protested, and the AP fired him several months after the war ended.In this absorbing and previously unpublished personal account, Kennedy recounts his career as a newspaperman from his early days as a stringer in Paris to the aftermath of his dismissal from the AP. During his time as a foreign correspondent, he covered the Spanish Civil War, the rise of Mussolini in Italy, unrest in Greece, and ethnic feuding in the Balkans. During World War II, he reported from Greece, Italy, North Africa, and the Middle East before heading back to France to cover its liberation and the German surrender negotiations. His decision to break the news of V-E Day made him front-page headlines in the New York Times. In his narrative, Kennedy emerges both as a reporter with an eye for a good story and an unwavering foe of censorship. This edition includes an introduction by Tom Curley and John Maxwell Hamilton, as well as a prologue and epilogue by Kennedy's daughter, Julia Kennedy Cochran. Their work draws upon newly available records held in the Associated Press Corporate Archives.
Ed vs. Yummy Fur
by Brian Evenson Tom KaczynskiBrian Evenson delves deeply into the pages of Chester Brown's (Louis Riel, Paying for It) seminal comic book Yummy Fur. Brian's comics archaeology excavates the discarded fragments of Brown's masterpiece Ed The Happy Clown, examines the never re-printed adaptions of the Gospels, and meditates on the pleasures of reading serialized pamphlet comic books. The book also features a brand new interview with Chester Brown shining a new spotlight on this important work.Brian Evenson is the multiple award winning author of several books of fiction. His work has been translated into many languages. He lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he directs Brown University's Literary Arts Program.
La edad del tiempo
by Joaquín Copa R. Sandima¿Habré encontrado la fórmula matemática que explique el concepto de tiempo? Ven. Adéntrate. Descúbrelo. <P><P>En cada momento, en cada lugar, resuena este reclamo: «tiempo, necesito tiempo, denme un poco más». El tiempo es la sombra que a todos nos acecha. En cuanto a esto, yo trabajaba en el Instituto genealógico de investigación de la parroquia... <P><P>Allí, leíamos libros de siglos pasados, registros de los nacimientos, de las muertes, de la vida... <P><P>Historiales literarios que teníamos que exportar al sistema digital. Nuestro jefe, un profesor de matemáticas, discutía mucho en cuanto a los registros del tiempo... Yo anoté los argumentos más interesantes que escuchaba: eran la clave de algo... Las junté, las ordené en una carpeta y les di un nombre, el nombre de tiempo, la edad del tiempo. La idea inicial no era escribir un libro, nunca lo he deseado, no soy escritor. No obstante, al percatarme de que estaba gestando un libro, me empeñé en alimentar este embrión literario mediante autores latinos, griegos, clásicos, modernos... <P><P>No me quedé ahí, lo nutrí con medicina científica, astronomía, arqueología y la misma Biblia, entre otros documentos. De este modo, pasaron cerca de veinte años. El fruto de ese arduo trabajo fue una obra, un ensayo literario independiente de toda ciencia, que trata tópicos controvertidos y persiste en brindar una solución al concepto que ha atormentado a la humanidad desde su génesis: el tiempo. Hay muchas teorías científicas que debemos aceptar tal como se nos plantean, sin cuestionarnos absolutamente nada, al fin y al cabo las han explicado los expertos. Sin embargo, es probable que existan también otros métodos que den respuesta a los hechos reales... <P><P>Sírvanos como ejemplo esto: la mitología, originalmente, no era mitología. De este modo, en los milagros pervive una dualidad, el derecho divino y la explicación física y la química. <P><P>¿Cómo medirían el tiempo los mayas, los aztecas y los incas? ¿Qué edad tendrán realmente las pirámides de Egipto? ¿Y las de México? ¿Qué decir del mismo Stonehenge, de las estatuas de la Isla de Pascua y el Tihuanaco de Bolivia? ¿Quiénes fueron sus autores? ¿Conocía el hombre primitivo la rueda? ¿La gravitación atraerá en sentido oblicuo? ¿Se habrá hundido la Atlántida en el mar?
The EDCF Guide to Digital Cinema Production
by Lasse SvanbergA professional introduction to the end-to-end process of digital filmmaking!The EDCF Guide to Digital Cinema Production sheds light on the ongoing and confusing transition from analog to digital technology in film production. In addition to a complete analysis of technical concerns, this text deals with a number of issues where European and Hollywood priorities differ. It adds fuel to the discussion on "Photo-Chemical Fundamentalism" and the future of traditional film-based cinematography.With special emphasis on new HD production techniques for the big cinema screen, this guide is the one and only resource available from a European perspective. The EDCF Guide to Digital Cinema Production provides film professionals and decisions-makers in European cinema with an excellent basis for discussions on how to handle the transition from analog to digital technology. Look no further for:* Several production case studies, among them Ingmar Bergman's last film "Saraband" (2003) and Lars von Trier's "Dogville" (2003).* Surveys of HD Systems & Cameras and "The 37 MFAQ on HD Production."* Expert reports on Audio Recording for HD and the Digital Intermediate Process.* Detailed European initiatives in Digital Cinema.* An up-to-date survey of the problematic standards situation for Digital Cinema.* A comprehensive look at archiving - the "Achilles Heel" of digital production.* The pros and cons of producing feature films digitally - a unique and professional view of "the agony and ecstacy."Editor-in-Chief Lasse Svanberg is a founding member of EDCF. He was DoP on 14 feature films 1966-81, founded TM (Technolgy & Man) Magazine at the Swedish Film Institute in 1968 and was its Chief Editor until 1998 He was elected Fellow of BKSTS 1979, Fellow of SMPTE 1995 and granted Professor's title by the Swedish Government 2002. He is the author of six books on the history and possible future of film, video and television.The European Digital Digital Cinema Forum (EDCF) was constituted in June 2001 as joint Swedish-British-French effort to establish a European forum for discussions, information exchange and industrial activities in the field of Digital Cinema. This project was initiated because digital production, digital distribution and digital exhibition of film is the most radical technical change facing the film industry since sound film was introduced.
Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond: Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies)
by Martin ChaseEddic, Skaldic, and Beyond shines light on traditional divisions of Old Norse–Icelandic poetry and awakens the reader to work that blurs these boundaries. Many of the texts and topics taken up in these enlightening essays have been difficult to categorize and have consequently been overlooked or undervalued. The boundaries between genres (Eddic and Skaldic), periods (Viking Age, medieval, early modern), or cultures (Icelandic, Scandinavian, English, Continental) may not have been as sharp in the eyes and ears of contemporary authors and audiences as they are in our own. When questions of classification are allowed to fade into the background, at least temporarily, the poetry can be appreciated on its own terms. Some of the essays in this collection present new material, while others challenge long-held assumptions. They reflect the idea that poetry with “medieval” characteristics continued to be produced in Iceland well past the fifteenth century, and even beyond the Protestant Reformation in Iceland (1550). This superb volume, rich in up-to-date scholarship, makes little-known material accessible to a wide audience.
Eddie Elephant's Exciting Egg-Sitting (Animal Antics A to Z)
by Barbara deRubertisEddie Elephant loves telling stories. So when he egg-sits for his neighbors, the Emus, he entertains the egg with his enchanting tales . . . and gets an enormous surprise!
Eden's Endemics: Narratives of Biodiversity on Earth and Beyond (Under the Sign of Nature)
by Elizabeth CallawayIn the past thirty years biodiversity has become one of the central organizing principles through which we understand the nonhuman environment. Its deceptively simple definition as the variation among living organisms masks its status as a hotly contested term both within the sciences and more broadly. In Eden’s Endemics, Elizabeth Callaway looks to cultural objects—novels, memoirs, databases, visualizations, and poetry— that depict many species at once to consider the question of how we narrate organisms in their multiplicity. Touching on topics ranging from seed banks to science fiction to bird-watching, Callaway argues that there is no set, generally accepted way to measure biodiversity. Westerners tend to conceptualize it according to one or more of an array of tropes rooted in colonial history such as the Lost Eden, Noah’s Ark, and Tree-of-Life imagery. These conceptualizations affect what kinds of biodiversities are prioritized for protection. While using biodiversity as a way to talk about the world aims to highlight what is most valued in nature, it can produce narratives that reinforce certain power differentials—with real-life consequences for conservation projects. Thus the choices made when portraying biodiversity impact what is visible, what is visceral, and what is unquestioned common sense about the patterns of life on Earth.
Edgar Allan Poe: sa vie et ses ouvrages
by W. T. Bandy Charles BaudelaireThe earliest foreign study of the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, the text presented in this volume is something of a landmark in the history of comparative literature. Baudelaire's first and longest essay on Poe was published in the Revue de Paris is 1852; it was revised and abridged for use as the preface of the first volume of his translation of Poe's tales, Histoires extraordinaires. This study was significant especially in the area of Franco-American literary relations because it was the basis of not only the French attitude toward Poe, but of his reputation throughout Europe--one might almost say, throughout the world. The essay on Poe has never been the subject of a separate publication. This edition reveals for the first time the sources of information used by Baudelaire. It shows that a considerable part of the study was translated literally from articles by John M. Daniel and John R. Thompson in the Southern Literary Messenger (1849-50). Previous editions vary widely in excellence because almost all suffered from the mistaken belief that Baudelaire was acquainted with the American edition of Poe's works when he wrote the 1852 essay and that it was largely based on Rufus Griswold's Memoir contained in that edition. This led to the commentary and notes that were unconsciously misleading and in many cases false.The introduction to this edition presents a complete and accurate account of the genesis of Baudelaire's essay, with supporting documents showing his indebtedness to American, French, and British sources. It enables the reader to distinguish clearly between what Baudelaire himself knew or thought about Poe and what he borrowed from other writers.
Edgar Allan Poe: The Selected Works (RP Minis)
by Edgar Allan PoeThis entertaining anthology includes four of Edgar Allan Poe’s most popular tales of terror (The Masque of the Red Death, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Black Cat) and a selection of his haunting poetry reprinted in full, along with an introduction and biography on the Master of the Macabre.
Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems and Essays
by Edgar Allan PoeHis reputation has never settled, seeing as many reversals after his death as during his life. Though read and enjoyed ny many, fewer admire him openly. This volume includes all of his poetry and his most important essays.
Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses: The Political Economy of Literature in Antebellum America
by Terence WhalenEdgar Allan Poe has long been viewed as an artist who was hopelessly out of step with his time. But as Terence Whalen shows, America's most celebrated romantic outcast was in many ways the nation's most representative commercial writer. Whalen explores the antebellum literary environment in which Poe worked, an environment marked by economic conflict, political strife, and widespread foreboding over the rise of a mass audience. The book shows that the publishing industry, far from being a passive backdrop to writing, threatened to dominate all aspects of literary creation. Faced with financial hardship, Poe desperately sought to escape what he called "the magazine prison-house" and "the horrid laws of political economy." By placing Poe firmly in economic context, Whalen unfolds a new account of the relationship between literature and capitalism in an age of momentous social change.The book combines pathbreaking historical research with innovative literary theory. It includes the first fully-documented account of Poe's response to American slavery and the first exposé of his plot to falsify circulation figures. Whalen also provides a new explanation of Poe's ambivalence toward nationalism and exploration, a detailed inquiry into the conflict between cryptography and common knowledge, and a general theory of Poe's experiments with new literary forms such as the detective story. Finally, Whalen shows how these experiments are directly linked to the dawn of the information age. This book redefines Poe's place in American literature and casts new light on the emergence of a national culture before the Civil War.