PASSION SPENT
PASSION SPENT: LOVE, IDENTITY AND REASON IN THE TALES OF E. A. POE
BENT SØRENSEN
This book is a reading of the arabesque tales of Edgar Allan Poe, focusing on the main themes of love, identity, and reason as they are played out in a core set of four love stories bearing the names of beautiful undying ladies. Included are chapters on structural plot analysis, the doppelgänger motif and close readings of thematic features in the four Poe tales.
The book also offers a categorization of Poe’s entire fictional oeuvre using the terms arabesque and grotesque, as well as a discussion of love’s psychology and tellability.
6×9” | B&W | 172 pp
ISBN 978-8799245666
CATEGORY
Literary criticism
EDITION
Standard paperback 2008 | $23
NOTE
A comprehensive monograph
REVIEWS
This is a book that axiomatizes not only death, but also what has been said about it. Freud's death drive is beautifully calculated against the background of a passion for reasoning and reading texts that hits you in the gut. And as with Poe, if love is all there is, it is so because of all the mystery in math. — CAMELIA ELIAS, Editorial
