The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet - Couverture souple

Rosenheim, Shawn James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 080185332X ISBN 13 : 9780801853326

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This text uses the writings of Edgar Allan Poe to pose a set of questions pertaining to literary genre, cultural modernity and technology. The author argues that Poe's cryptographic writings - his essays on cryptography and the short stories that grew out of them - requires that we rethink the relation of poststructural criticism to Poe's texts, and more generally, reconsider the relation of literature to communication. The author argues that cryptography serves not only as a template for the language, character, and themes of much of Poe's late fiction but also as a "secret history" of literary modernity itself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Shawn J. Rosenheim is an associate professor of English at Williams College. He is the author of The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Allan Poe to the Internet, also available from Johns Hopkins.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080185332X
• ISBN 13: 9780801853326
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 282
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible