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The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Bales, Kent. "Poetic Justice in 'The Cask of Amontillado'." Poe Studies 5, No. 2 (December 1972): 51.

Comments on multiple levels of irony in the tale from a Protestant viewpoint.

Benton, Richard P. "Poe's 'The Cask' and the 'White Webwork Which Gleams'." Studies in Short Fiction 28, No. 2 (Spring 1991): 183-94.

Addresses the implications of the nitre on the walls of Montresor's catacombs.

Bonaparte, Marie. "The Masquerades." In her The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Psycho-analytic Interpretation, pp. 505-24. London: Imago Publishing Co., 1949.

Outlines Poe's oedipal rivalry in the context of the tale, supposing that Poe "fully vented" his aggression against a suspected romantic rival.

Burns, Shannon. "'The Cask of Amontillado': Montresor's Revenge." Poe Studies 7, No. 1 (June 1974): 25.

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