Edgar Allan Poe: pleasing the elites and the masses. "Tales of the Folio Club" and the short-circuit of nonsense. Introd. to crime fiction and Dashiell Hammett

8 Outubro 2015, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849): "Father" of psychological horror, detective fiction, science fiction, symbolist poetry, reception theory, the modern short story.
Analysis of the preface to "Tales of the Folio Club": notions of paratext and literary hoax.
Nonsense, quotationalism and parody short-circuiting the hold on reason by the elites.
From Poe's detective novel to Sherlock Holme's Scotland Yard Mysteries to Agatha Christie's Closet Mystery.
The 1920s crime fiction bringing murder to the streets and to the common man:
Introduction to the short story "The House on Turk Street" by Dashiell Hammett.
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/10/homework-for-oct-8-notes-for-reading.html
and
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/03/crime-novel-in-us.html