| Robert Druce - 1987 - 230 síður
...this nameless feeling (beyond analysis). Little does the narrator, unlike his author, realize that the "mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are. in themselves, but little 24 susceptible of analysis".5 He was lost in a whole visual and oral semiology without a "key". At... | |
| Gustavo Pérez Firmat - 1990 - 416 síður
...essentially at odds with itself, that Poe evokes at the very start of the Dupin stories when he says that the "mental features discoursed of as the analytical...in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis." As is often the case in his fiction, Poe, using the picture language of radicals, emblematizes this... | |
| Kenneth Silverman - 1993 - 152 síður
...author's, and Dupin's method is only an "air of method." As the opening line of "Murders" announces, "the mental features discoursed of as the analytical...in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis" (527). The problem is not epistemological but narratological. The distinction between event and analysis... | |
| J. Kenneth Van Dover - 1994 - 284 síður
...narrative by observations very much at random"), it is a treatise — begins with the proposition, "The mental features discoursed of as the analytical...analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects" (I.397).7 "Analysis" becomes the label of the method which the narrator announces and Dupin practices.8... | |
| James R. Lawler - 1997 - 236 síður
...philosopher to present his theme of perversity, just as Poe, his model in this page, so frequently does. ("The mental features discoursed of as the analytical,...in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis" is the opening sentence of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue.") In the first half he puts the paradox... | |
| Matthew Granovetter - 1999 - 388 síður
...Murders in the Rue Morgue'. So this was Mr. Keewood's remedy for worries — a good murder mystery. The mental features discoursed of as the analytical,...analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects... Pretty heavy stuff, I thought. I started skimming a bit rather than reading every line: As the strong... | |
| Patricia Merivale, Susan Sweeney - 1999 - 324 síður
...essentially at odds with itself, that Poe evokes at the very start of the Dupin stories when he says that the "mental features discoursed of as the analytical...in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis" ("Murder" 527). As is often the case in his fiction, Poe, using the picture language of radicals, emblematizes... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - 2000 - 756 síður
...himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. Sir Thomas Browne. The" mental features discoursed of as the analytical"'...little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them Title: The Murders in the Rue assumptions of grave authority), <Trianon-Bas> Morgue. (A) <however)>... | |
| Daniel Stashower - 2001 - 504 síður
...to Poe. "Murders in the Rue Morgue," Poe's first detective story, begins in a dry, clinical fashion: The mental features discoursed of as the analytical,...inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment. The contrast to "A Scandal in Bohemia," the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, could hardly... | |
| Jonathan D. Culler - 2003 - 476 síður
...recall each word of the title, and again the epithet about Achilles' name when he hid among women. "The mental features discoursed of as the analytical,...in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. . . . The analyst [glories] in that moral activity which disentangles. He derives pleasure from even... | |
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