This book analyzes a range of Edgar Allan Poe's writing, focusing on new readings that engage with classical and (post)modern studies of his work and the troubling literary relationship that he had with T.S. Eliot. Whilst the book examines Poe's influence in Spain, and how his figure has been marketed to young and adult Spanish reading audiences, it also explores the profound impact that Poe had on other audiences, such as in America, Greece, and Japan, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The essays attest to Poe's well-deserved reputation, his worldwide legacy, and his continued presence in global literature. This book will appeal particularly to university teachers, Poe scholars, graduate students, and general readers interested in Poe's oeuvre.

Explores the critical and popular reception of Edgar Allan Poe's works across time and around the world Analyses how Poe has been interpreted by writers, artists and filmmakers Presents Poe as a global literary figure, whose influence extends far beyond the US

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José R. Ibáñez is Assistant Professor at the University of Almeria, Spain. He has published articles and book chapters on Comparative literature and American literature, with an emphasis on Edgar Allan Poe and the short fiction of Southern United States authors and hyphenated American authors, such as Jhumpa Lahiri and Ha Jin.

Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan is Senior Lecturer at the University of Valladolid, Spain. He has published extensively on the relations between Spanish and American literatures and on the short story. His research interests include American literature of the Romantic and Modernist periods.

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This book analyzes a range of Edgar Allan Poe s writing, focusing on new readings that engage with classical and (post)modern studies of his work and the troubling literary relationship that he had with T.S. Eliot. Whilst the book examines Poe s influence in Spain, and how his figure has been marketed to young and adult Spanish reading audiences, it also explores the profound impact that Poe had on other audiences, such as in America, Greece, and Japan, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The essays attest to Poe s well-deserved reputation, his worldwide legacy, and his continued presence in global literature. This book will appeal particularly to university teachers, Poe scholars, graduate students, and general readers interested in Poe s oeuvre.

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1 Introduction: Re-assessing Poe's 'Adolescent' Art - JOSÉ R. IBÁÑEZ IBÁÑEZ & SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ GUERRERO-STRACHAN.- Poe Classical and (Post)modern readings.- 2 Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Nostalgia and Poe's Readership - JEFFREY SAVOYE.- 3 Fear, Unbelief, and the Ascendancy of Edgar Poe - J. GERALD KENNEDY.- 4 The Glory that was Greece and the Grandeur that was Rome: Edgar Allan Poe and the Classical World - HARRY LEE POE.- 5 Poe's Arrival in Europe: The Case of Greece - DIMITRIOS TSOKANOS.- 6 The Achievement of Edgar Allan Poe: Poe among the Modernists - VIORICA PATEA.- 7 Poeta Ludens : Poe's Twisted Modern Times - STEPHANIE SOMMERFELD.- Poe's Young Adult Readership.- 8 Reading, Understanding, and Praising Poe's Illustrated Oeuvre: From Childhood to Old Age - FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ MORENO & MARGARITA RIGAL-ARAGÓN.- 9 Poe's 'The Gold-Bug.' Reading, and Race - JOHN GRUESSER.- 10 Poe's Berenice in Popular Culture: Contemporary (Audio)visual representations in Spain - Mª ISABEL JIMÉNEZ-GONZÁLEZ & ANA GONZÁLEZ-RIVAS FERNÁNDEZ.- 11 The Masque of the Red Death in literature and cinema: Poe's original story and Corman's film adaptation - EUSEBIO V. LLÀCER LLORCA.- Poe's Adult Readership and his Legacy.- 12 Beyond Baudelaire's Views of Poe: Carlos Fernández Cuenca and Josep Farrán i Mayoral. Literary Criticism and Aesthetic Reception in 1930s and 1940s Spain - JOSÉ MANUEL CORREOSO-RÓDENAS & ALEJANDRO JAQUERO-ESPARCIA.- 13 Darkness there and nothing more: Edgar A. Poe and the Popular Culture of Necrolatry and Tanatography - EULALIA PIÑERO GIL.- 14 Echoes of Poe in the Jazz Age: The Haunting of F. Scott Fitzgerald - BONNIE MCMULLEN.- 15 Growing up in Poe's Shadow: Intertextuality, Jungian Projections, and Creativity in Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Stephen King's The Monkey - MARTA MIQUEL-BALDELLOU.- 16 Poe's Poetics and Eliot's Poetry. A Denial of Influence? - SAWOMIR STUDNIARZ.- 17 The Man of the Crowd and His Followers: Poe,Rampo and Sakate - TAKAYUKI TATSUMI.