| Titre | Poe à la croisée des chemins : réalisme et scepticisme | |
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| Auteur | François Brunet, Philippe Jaworski, Dominique Marçais | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 71, janvier 1997 Sciences & savoir dans la littérature américaine au XIXe siècle. | |
| Page | 7 pages | |
| Résumé anglais |
Against the common view of Poe as a romantic occultist, this paper attempts to describe the significance of scientific rationality as a source and model for his short fiction. Through the analysis of "Hans Pfaall", his famous early hoax, we bring to light the problematic of narrative credibility and self-evidentiality, which as J. Irwin has shown, is central to Poe's skeptical imagination. This problematic, which we also relate to the status of written information in the context of Jacksonian democracy, is further evidenced by Poe's deep interest in the invention of photography — a formidable scientific and poetic tool against skepticism. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1997_num_71_1_1671 |
