{"product_id":"the-purloined-poe-john-p-muller-9780801832932","title":"The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida and Psychoanalytic Reading","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1956 Jacques Lacan proposed as interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's \"Purloined Letter\" that at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radically new conception of psychoanalysis. Lacan's far-reaching claims about language and truth provoked a vigorous critique by Jacques Derrida, whose essay in turn has spawned further responses from Barbara Johnson, Jane Gallop, Irene Harvey, Norman Holland, and others. \u003ci\u003eThe Purloined Poe\u003c\/i\u003e brings Poe's story together with these readings to provide, in the words of the editors, \"a structured exercuse in the elaboration of textual interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Purloined Poe\u003c\/i\u003e reprints the full text of Poe's story, followed by Lacan's \"Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter, '\" along with extensive commentary by the editors. Marie Bonaparte's and Shoshana Felman's discussions of traditional and contemporary approaches to \"psychoanalysing\" texts precede Alan Bass's new translation of Derrida's \"Purveyor of Truth.\" The subsequent essays join the Lacan-Derrida debate and offer alternative readings by literary theorists, philosophers, psychologists, and psychoanalysts. \u003ci\u003eThe Purloined Poe\u003c\/i\u003e convenes much of the most important current scholarship on \"The Purloined Letter\" and presents a rich sampling of poststructuralist discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John P. Muller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801832934\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801832932\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/19\/1988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.08h x 6.22w x 1.04d","brand":"John P. Muller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926133965055,"sku":"9780801832932","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_89c97fc2-a639-471e-903c-d4e694a1c6ae.jpg?v=1681081394","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-purloined-poe-john-p-muller-9780801832932","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}