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- ISBN 9780801832932
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Nov 1987
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In 1956 Jacques Lacan proposed an interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's "Purloined Letter" that at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radical new concept of psychoanalysis. Lacan's far reaching claims about language and truth provoked a vigorous critique by Jacques Derrida, whose essay in turn spawned further responses from other writers. "The Purloined Poe" brings Poe's story together with these readings to provide a structured exercise in the elaboration of text interpretation.
John P. Muller is a clinical psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. William J. Richardson is professor of philosophy at Boston College. They are coauthors of Lacan and Language: A Reader's Guide to Ecrits.
