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Dupin’ the Scholar

Examining Poe’s “The Purloined Letter” is compared to Emerson’s speech “The American Scholar”.

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The Mystery of Marie Roget, Murdered by Edgar Allan Poe

Was Edgar Allan Poe not only a brilliant author, but also a demonic killer who wrote The Mystery of Marie Roget, to boast about the crime he committed?

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Poe: The Purloined Letter

How do you interpret Dupin’s lecture on hiding and finding? Could his strategy also be applied to the interpretation of detective fiction?

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