International Poe Bibliography in Japan No. 3 (April 2014–March 2017)
- International Poe Bibliography in Japan No. 3 (April 2014–March 2017)
This paper examines Poe's "The Man of the Crowd" and Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" to elucidate the relationship between Poe's and Melville's representations of the modern city, a subject that has hitherto not received much attention. Focusing on their urban space not as landscape but as a torn and discontinuous terrain, the paper contends that the trace of alterity in the invisible city represents the abyss of industrial capitalism in nineteenth-century American literature.
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This paper compares two versions of "The Raven," that is, the original version by Poe and the adaptation by the American rock musician Lou Reed, analyzing some textual differences between them to explore the implication of Reed's adaptation.
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It is well-known that Poe has achieved universal popularity in Gothic fiction, contemporary cinema, and classical or popular music. According to recent discoveries of novel resources, his image has now been revisited and revised in some political, cultural, as well as biographical contexts. This article demonstrates how Poe's image has been fabricated and produced on indivisible biographical facts and those in his fiction by corroboratively rereading his works and biographies.
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This article relates Poe's "The Philosophy of Composition" to how the landscape garden ought to be visualized in Poe's "The Landscape Garden" and the latter half of "The Domain of Arnheim." The second section reviews the development of Japanese studies of Poe's landscape sketches.
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This article interprets Julian Hawthorne's two Gothic short stories, "My Adventure of Edgar Allan Poe" and "The Grave of Finguala Ethelind," to reveal the multiple facets of Julian Hawthorne as a biographer of his literary father and the creator of the genre of the American vampire.
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This article traces the life of Poe as a magazinist who struggled to own a literary periodical. By considering both his roles and tasks as the editor of several magazines and transnational copyright laws in the nineteenth century, this article examines how Poe tried to gain readers and what he deliberated about in order to achieve this goal.
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This book is the latest translation of Poe's works in Japan. Ikesue translates three short stories, collaborates in editing with Konosu and Sakuraba, and provides annotations, a chronological table, and pictures she took herself.
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This book reflects the author's thirty years of Poe studies since her first book, The Road to Arnheim (1986). Dismal Swamp and the American Renaissance focuses on the crucial role of the Dismal Swamp as an imaginative and ecological origin of the poetic...
