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Title: Poe's Children

Poe's Children

Connections between Tales of Terror and Detection

by Tony Magistrale (Author) Sidney Poger (Author)
©2001 Textbook X, 150 Pages
English Studies

Summary

This study traces Edgar Allan Poe’s contribution to the Gothic tradition and his invention of the detective tale. It explores the connections between these genres in British and American writers influenced by Poe, such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Harris, and Stephen King. This book also examines women writers strongly influenced by Poe, such as Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, and Sue Grafton. The last chapter of the volume considers films – in particular, the Roger Corman Poe series, Chinatown, Seven, and Blade Runner – that connect the horror and detective genres.

Details

Pages
X, 150
Year
2001
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820440705
Language
English
Keywords
Horror Detective genre Film Gothic tradition
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 1999, 2001.X, 150 pp.

Biographical notes

Tony Magistrale (Author) Sidney Poger (Author)

The Authors: Tony Magistrale is Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He is widely published in the Anglo-American Gothicisim field. His most recent book is The Poe Encyclopedia. He is the author of another volume published by Peter Lang entitled Writing Across Culture. He has received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Sidney Poger is Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He received his Ph.D. in English from Columbia University. He is widely published in journals on various topics and genres.

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