I need a critique on Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Purloined Letter'? It doesn't need to be perfect. I'll take about anything.

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2001

Answers

Dear Brandi,

There is a critical book entitled: The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading, ed by John P. Muller and William J. Richardson (Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1988). I warn you that it is very detailed, though it should help you out if you can procure a copy of it.

Good luck with whatever it is you are doing:

Yours sincerely,

Pragmatic_Poe

-- Anonymous, February 05, 2001