The Porous Sanctuary : Art and Anxiety in Poe's Short Fiction
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Sexuality and Literature
ISBN-10
0820451819
ISBN-13
9780820451817
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 29th, 2002
Print length
155 Pages
Weight
356 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 23.70 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: generalLiterary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Psychology
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The Porous Sanctuary argues that the resistance to interpretation discovered by increasingly frequent deconstructive readings of Poe’s short fictions can be interpreted psychologically rather than deconstructively. The various strategies of obfuscation and evasion, conscious or otherwise, that permeate the texts serve to obscure intimidating realities typically associated with woman and the female body, which the narratives glimpse and recoil from. For Poe, art was a sanctuary from such unpalatable realities, but it was a porous one, relentlessly invaded by what it was designed to exclude. The tales, self-reflexive in this sense, typically narrate the struggle between the autotelic insularity of the work of art and the assaults of a menacing reality upon its penetrable walls.
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