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From: Symbiosis[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Collins studies “The Cask of Amontillado” in relation to the theatrical aspects of American fraternal organizations.] I broke and reached him a flagon of De Grâve … He laughed...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Translated Poe[(essay date 2014) In the following essay, Hăisan discusses five different Romanian translations of “The Masque of the Red Death.”] Chronologically one of the very first American writers who entered Romanian culture,...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and EspionageIndividual Works by Edgar Allan PoeTamerlane and Other Poems. By a Bostonian. Boston: Calvin F.S. Thomas, Printer, 1827.Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. Baltimore: Hatch & Dunning, 1829.Poems by Edgar A. Poe....Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: ELH[(essay date fall 2003) In the following essay, Coviello discusses racial and sexual overtones in Poe's body of work.] An enthusiasm for Poe is the mark of a decidedly primitive stage of reflection.--Henry James1That...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Rocky Mountain Review[(essay date fall 2004) In the following essay, Baraban examines the reason for Montresor's murder of Fortunato in "The Cask of Amontillado," suggesting that Fortunato "is being punished for his arrogance and for...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Kentucky Philological Review[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Bradley discusses the influence of Edgar Allan Poe on Twain’s later stories.] First published in 1876, the significant year of America’s centennial, Mark Twain’s short story...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Benton considers Poe’s references to geology and chemistry in “The Cask of Amontillado,” contending that the story engages with the philosophical issue of humanity’s...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionOne of Edgar Allan Poe's finest stories, "The Cask of Amontillado" is especially notable for two reasons: its subtle, ironic treatment of a passionate but coldly-calculated plot to bury a man alive to satisfy an...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNo doubt the moment we turn a source into a subject (for an article, for a conversation) there is nothing left but to give it predicates; in the case of Flannery, however, such predication unfailingly takes the most...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The New York Times Book ReviewIn his tales of Gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe gave the world a fine collection of neurotics, paranoids and psychopaths. But none are quite as deranged as the narrator of ''The Cask of Amontillado.'' His name is...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of LiteratureCask of Amontillado, The Short story by Poe, Edgar Allan , first published in Godey's Lady's Book in November 1846. The narrator of this tale of horror is the aristocrat Montresor, who, having endured, as he claims, a...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHe was born 18 April 1913 in a residential part of Dublin, the last child in a middle-class family of six. The Ha'penny Bridge, crossing the river Liffy. Joyce, O'Brien, Beckett crossed this bridge. As a youth he...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The Comparatist (Vol. 35) Peer-ReviewedEdgar Allan Poe suffered from a malady common to nineteenth-century American authors living on both continents: economic circumstances that necessitated a reliance on the market forces of a polity and society with which...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: College English[(essay date December 1942) In the following excerpt, Green opines that Poe's essay, "The Poetic Principle," offers a reasonable explanation of the genesis and development of "The Raven."] "The Raven" The widespread...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Brumal[(essay date 2014) In the following essay, Miquel-Baldellou examines A Stir of Echoes as a reflection of Poe’s tales and a source of “important intertextual links” to Poe stories that Matheson adapted for film.] 1. The...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center