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Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is associate professor of American literature and culture at Central Michigan University and is the author of Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women and The Rocky Horror Picture Show . He has edited academic volumes on American ghosts, South Park , "The Yellow Wall-Paper," and The Blair Witch Project , and his work has appeared in journals including American Literature , Studies in American Fiction , the Arizona Quarterly , and Pedagogy . Tony Magistrale is professor of English and associate chair of the English department at the University of Vermont. His publications on Poe include The Poe Encyclopedia , Poe's Children: Connections between Tales of Terror and Detection , and A Student Companion to Edgar Allan Poe . Klappentext Edgar Allan Poe is a popular author, and students have often read his work by the time they reach the college or university classroom. His writings have inspired film, television, and musical adaptations--sources for much of students' knowledge about Poe. Thus the challenge for teachers is to reacquaint students with Poe as a complex literary figure. This volume equips teachers with the tools necessary to meet that challenge. Part 1 identifies the most frequently taught Poe texts, reviews useful editions of his work, and suggests secondary sources on Poe as well as television, film, music, and Web materials for use in the classroom. Essays in part 2 explore the relation between Poe's writing and his biography, including his attitudes toward racial difference and plagiarism and his wide publication in the literary magazines of his time. Contributors consider the range of Poe's writings, from his horror stories to his analytic essays and tales of ratiocination; his work is also compared with that of Stephen King, Alfred Hitchcock, and graphic novelists. Other essays assess the usefulness of theoretical approaches to Poe, especially psychoanalytic ones, and discuss the controversies concerning the literary merit of his work. Together, these essays bring to life the political, philosophical, and religious context in which Poe wrote. ...
