...Stephanie Kinzinger Stephanie Kinzinger, “Embodied Cognition in Edgar Allan Poe: Eureka ’s Cosmology, Dupin’s Intuition” (pp. 124–144) This essay argues that Edgar Allan Poe’s Eureka (1848) anticipates contemporary cognitive science’s theories of embodied cognition, particularly the notion...

...Paul Hurh Beginning with the influential readings by Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, poststructuralist fascination with Edgar Allan Poe's detective tales has treated them as fables of analytical method and exposed them as posing an insoluble challenge to totalizing frameworks of interpretive...

... the debt that their founding figures, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Browning, owe to the Gothic and from their shared interest in the individual psyche. © 2011 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article...

...Alexandra Urakova The essay returns Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter" to The Gift: A Christmas, New Year, and Birthday Present, 1845 , the gift book in which it was originally published, in order to explore its relationship to its apparently arbitrary frame. Correspondences among Poe's tale...

...Dan Shen For over one hundred years, critics have widely regarded Edgar Allan Poe as an aesthetician of literature as a whole, which has to a great extent oriented the interpretation of his prose narratives. In this essay I revisit Poe's relevant essays and reveal that Poe's aesthetic conception...

...Matthew A. Taylor Matthew A. Taylor, “Edgar Allan Poe's (Meta)physics: A Pre-History of the Post-Human” (pp. 193–221) Edgar Allan Poe partakes of a social imaginary pursuing a single, unified theory of the physical and metaphysical. In this essay I examine how Poe, rather than following...