Edgar Poe and Postmodernism

Poe’s fascination with madness and perverseness resonates with heightened Western/American, post-Freudian awareness of the unconscious and the irrational. Poe explores the varieties of insanity and illustrates symptomatic phobias, obsessions and hallucinations. In “Usher” he portrays a distinctly po...

The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review

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