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Dupin’ the Scholar
Examining Poe’s “The Purloined Letter” is compared to Emerson’s speech “The American Scholar”.
Examining Poe’s “The Purloined Letter” is compared to Emerson’s speech “The American Scholar”.
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?
How do you interpret Dupin’s lecture on hiding and finding? Could his strategy also be applied to the interpretation of detective fiction?