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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “emron esplin”
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  • Anthologizing Poe

    Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons

    by Emron Esplin, Margarida Vale de Gato, Jana L. Argersinger, Fernando González-Moreno, John Gruesser, Michelle Kay Hansen, J. Gerald Kennedy, Bonnie Shannon McMullen, Travis Montgomery0, Scott Peeples1, Philip Edward Phillips2, Stephen Rachman3, Margarita Rigal-Aragón4, Christopher Rollason5, Jeffrey A. Savoye6, Takayuki Tatsumi7, Alexandra Urakova8, Harry Lee Poe9 ...
    Series series Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe
    This collection explores how anthologizers and editors of Edgar Allan Poe play an integral role in shaping our conceptions of Poe as the author we have come to recognize, revere, and critique today. In the spheres of literature and popular culture, Poe wields more global influence than any other U.S. author. This influence, however, cannot be attributed solely to the quality of Poe’s texts or to ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Translated Poe

    by Bouchra Benlemlih, Hivren Demir-Atay, Marlene Hansen Esplin, Lenita Esteves, Ástráður Eysteinsson, Zongxin Feng, Maria Filippakopoulou, Daniel Göske, Magda Mansour Hasabelnaby, Aimei Ji, Henri Justin, Woosung Kang, Marius Littschwager, J. Scott Miller, George Monteiro, Rafael Olea Franco, Elvira Osipova, Renata Philippov, Margarita Rigal-Aragón, Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan, Christopher Rollason, Ugo Rubeo, Takayuki Tatsumi, Alexandra Urakova, Pamela Vicenteño Bravo, Lois Davis Vines, Johan Wijkmark, Eysteinn Þorvaldsson, Ayse Nihal Akbulut, Liviu Cotrau, Daniela Haisan ...
    Series series Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe
    Few, if any, U.S. writers are as important to the history of world literature as Edgar Allan Poe, and few, if any, U.S. authors owe so much of their current reputations to the process of translation. Translated Poe brings together 31 essays from 19 different national/literary traditions to demonstrate Poe’s extensive influence on world literature and thought while revealing the importance of the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Borges's Poe

    The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America

    by Emron Esplin ...
    Series series The New Southern Studies
    Edgar Allan Poe’s image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the Río de la Plata region of South America—Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. In Borges’s Poe, Emron Esplin focuses on the second author in this trio and argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood

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  • Cosmopolitanisms

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  • Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions

    Gender, Culture, and Nation Building

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    The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic

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  • Clear Word and Third Sight

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    North American Fictions of Latin America

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