A World of Words offers a new look at the degree to which language itself is a topic of Poe's texts. Stressing the ways his fiction reflects on the nature of its own signifying practices, Williams sheds new light on such issues as Poe's characterization of the relationship between author and reader as a struggle for authority, on his awareness of the displacement of an "authorial writing self" by a "self as it is written," and on his debunking of the redemptive properties of the romantic symbol.
- ISBN10 0822307804
- ISBN13 9780822307808
- Publish Date 11 March 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Duke University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 199
- Language English