“Nothing makes so fine a show as your Greek”: a foreword to Poe’s philhellenism in “How to Write a Blackwood Article” and “A Predicament”

Dimitrios Tsokanos

doi:10.18172/cif.3599

Auteurs-es

Dimitrios Tsokanos Universidad de Almería http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0799-272X

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.18172/cif.3599

Mots-clés :

Poe, "A Predicament", "Blackwoods", grec, Littérature hellénique

Résumé

Les nouvelles «How to Write a Blackwood Article» et «The Scythe of Time» de Poe ont toutes deux attiré l’attention de nombreux érudits et par leur lien indéniable entre elles et et par leur ton satirique. Des études telles que celles de Daniel Hoffman et Kenneth Silverman ont pris note de la satire voilée de Poe contre certaines littératures étrangères. En fait, Poe n'hésite pas à citer plusieurs auteurs étrangers dans le texte et à l’admettre tout de suite après. Or, même s’il est possible de trouver des études telles que celles de Gustav Gruener, Carl F. Schreiber et Susan Levine centrées sur les influences allemande et espagnole sur l’oeuvre de Poe, il n’existe pas de travaux qui explorent systématiquement l'aspect hellénique de la question. Cet article met l’accent sur l’importance de la langue et de la littérature helléniques dans les textes littéraires de Poe et établit également des liens supplémentaires entre «A Predicament» et la mythologie hellénique, connexions qui ont peut-être été négligées, jusqu’à présent, par les études critiques sérieuses.

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Biographie de l'auteur-e

Dimitrios Tsokanos, Universidad de Almería

D. Tsokanos is a Ph.D. Candidate of the University of Almeria (Spain) and works as a lecturer at Loughborough College (UK). He is a member of "Lindisfarne," a literary investigation group of the University of Almeria sponsored by CEI Patrimonio. He is also a member of the "Edgar Allan Poe Spanish Association", and he is particularly interested in literature of the Romantic period; his thesis delves into Edgar Allan Poe's tales and poems. All his publications focus on Poe, the Hellenic references in his works, and his reception in Greece ever since the 19th century.

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