It's a good word. Did Poe learn from Dostojevskij? Compare Raskolnikov with
the short story of Poe's where the narrator (fetishistically) disavows his
own patricide, only to admit to it all *after* the visiting police officers
accept his denial. The return of the repressed in this case seems something
more powerful and elusive than what Freud's lost son managed to conjure
with derivative concepts, such as a purportedly *collective* unconscious?
All the best,
T.
Poland
On Tue, 4 May 2021, 05:28 david ritchie, <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Once in a while Edgar Allen Poe’s “Raven” will caw as you walk on by.
People have tried to explain the enduring popularity of this poem. Here’s
one example:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2014/10/30/why-we-quoth-the-raven-evermore/
I’m agnostic on that subject. To me the poem is, “Quoth the Raven…”
That’s it. What I’m interested in is “quoth." Enter that into a search
engine and you get stuff about ancient roots of the word and then…Edgar
Allen Poe.
So what do you know of the in-between period? Is there a whole lot of
quothing I don’t know about, or was Poe a Resurrection Man, raising the
word from the dead?
David Ritchie,
Portland,
Oregon------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
