This collection of essays which rediscovers Edgar Allan Poe s not forgotten lore comprises a two headed scholarly body drawing from communication and linguistics and literature although it also includes many other academic offshoots which explore Poe s labyrinthine and variegated imagination The papers are classified according to two main domains namely I Edgar Allan Poe in Language Literature and Translation Studies and II Edgar Allan Poe in Communication and the Arts In short this book combines rigour and modernity and pays homage with a fresh outlook to Poe s extra ordinary originality and brilliant weirdness which prompted renowned authors like James Russell Lowell and Howard P Lovecraft to claim respectively that Mr Poe has that indescribable something which men have agreed to call genius and that Poe s tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon lights in the province of the short story Poe s weird tales are alive in a manner that few others can ever hope to be

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