Halliburton, David,

Edgar Allen Poe : a phenomenological view / David Halliburton. - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)1973. - 1 online resource (439 pages). - Princeton Legacy Library .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Table of Contents; 1. Foreword; 2. Methodological Introduction: Assumptions and Procedures; 3. Poems; 4. Tales; 5. The Dialogues and Eureka; 6. Conclusion.

By attempting to suspend moral, ideological, or psychological assumptions, a phenomenological interpretation of literature hopes to reach ""the things themselves, "" the essential phenomena of being, space, and time, as they are constituted, by consciousness, in words. Although there has been a tradition of phenomenological criticism in Europe for the last twenty years, David Halliburton is the first to write a general study of an American author from this particular point of view. The book begins with a methodological chapter that sets out the assumptions and procedures of the approach. This.



9781400873043


Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.


Fantasy literature, American--History and criticism.
Phenomenology and literature--History--19th century.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Criticism and interpretation.


Electronic Books.

PS2631 / .E343 1973