Tag Archives: Edgar Allan Poe

The Team Named After a Poem

The Baltimore Ravens, headed for the AFC championship game, are the only team named after a poem. In some ways, the poem fits them.

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On Friday 13 and Black Cats

A post on Friday 13 and black cats, with thoughts on Poe and a Rilke cat poem.

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Barbie: Love Her, Hate Her

The new Barbie film confirms Piercy’s complaints about stereotypes in “Barbie Doll” but goes further.

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It Was in the Bleak December

Poe’s “The Raven” is one way to usher in “bleak December.” The poem works on the play between madness and reason.

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The Pit, the Pendulum, and Covid Relief

If Covid has offered a choice between the pit and the pendulum, then the vaccines and the Covid relief bill have been the liberating French army.

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Not Poe’s Red Death but Still Dangerous

Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death” captures the belief that we can wall out epidemics and then dance the night away.

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Repressed Violence in Southern Gothic Lit

In my course on American Gothic Supernatural lit, I contrasted “Turn of the Scre”w with “Wizard of Oz” and then glanced at Southern Gothic lit.

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To Understand America, Read Gothics

In a course on American supernatural gothic fiction, I argue that Poe pushed back against the Enlightenment and Hawthorne against Puritanism.

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Poe & Hiding in Plain Sight

Thursday Now that the phrase “hiding in plain sight” is on everyone’s lips, it’s worth revisiting an old post, written 18 months ago, about Edgar Allan Poe’s “Purloined Letter.” After all, since then we’ve had confirmed one of the more spectacular instances of a letter theft committed in plain sight. When Trump said during the campaign, […]

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