Mark wrote:
No Poe? Have you read Cawelti's Adventure, Mystery and
Romance
(those words may actually be in a different order)? He
addresses some of the things you say at the end of your
post.
*************** Oh yeah. I reread some Poe and added a few
new ones. That post was just a quick and dirty rundown. I
left out a lot. Like Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Machiavelli's Prince. You are right, though. I should have
mentioned Poe. The Fall of the House of Usher is noirish.
Gothic. The Black Cat is a new one that definitely weighed in
on the noir side.
Message in a Bottle seemed a play on Ancient Mariner,
but not very exciting beyond that. I think Poe has been a
major influence on American literature.
And thank you for the Cawelti reference. I haven't read it.
I'll look for it.
miker
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