Barbara Cantalupo Poe Influence Essays sku-21146909

Barbara Cantalupo Literary Collection Books, sku-21146909. The hardcover collection Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe: Poe's Pervasive Influence contains essays first presented as talks at the Poe Studies Association's Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference: The Bicentennial in October 2009. The essays examine Poe's influence on writers in the United States and abroad.

Primary texts include an interview with Japanese detective novelist Kiyoshi Kasai and poems by Charles Cantalupo, both directly related to Poe's work or life. Essays on international writers discuss Edogawa Rampo of Japan; Lu Xun of China; Fernando Pessoa, Eça de Queirós, and Ramalho Ortigão of Portugal; Angela Carter of England; and Nikolai Gogol of Russia.

The collection complements and extends the project begun by Lois Vines' Poe Abroad (University of Iowa Press, 1999), adding essays on Poe's influence on American writers William Faulkner, Mary Oliver, Joyce Carol Oates, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Jacobs.