The ourang-outang situation.
| Publisher | West Chester University |
| Publication | College Literature |
| Subject | Education |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0093-3139 |
| Issues per Year | 3 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Published | 2003-06-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Author | n/a | Edward Higgins White |
| Related Content | Type |
| The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Salem on Literature |
The crime at the heart of Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is the slave insurrection, but the real mystery of this story concerns why this reading is not more obvious. A discussion of the classroom challenges of this interpretation reveals some shortcomings of "structuralist" pedagogies while highlighting the advantages of Sartre's "situational" approach to historical context. ********** The interpretive premise of this essay is a simple one: the first American detective story, Edgar Allen Poe's 1841 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," is a response to American slave rebellions. But...
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