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Life Writing/Death Writing: Biographical Versions of Poe's Final Hours
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 18, Number 4, Fall 1995
- pp. 328-338
- 10.1353/bio.2010.0102
- Article
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Given the prominence of death as a theme in Poe's fiction and poetry, as well as his career-long emphasis on "fact" as a textual construct, nothing could be more appropriate than a tradition of fabrication and speculation surrounding his own final hours.