The cryptographic imagination : secret writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet

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The cryptographic imagination : secret writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet

Shawn James Rosenheim

(Parallax : re-visions of culture and society)(Johns Hopkins paperbacks)

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

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"A Johns Hopkins paperback"--Backcover

Includes bibliographical notes (p. 213-251) and index

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内容説明

This text uses the writings of Edgar Allan Poe to pose a set of questions pertaining to literary genre, cultural modernity and technology. The author argues that Poe's cryptographic writings - his essays on cryptography and the short stories that grew out of them - requires that we rethink the relation of poststructural criticism to Poe's texts, and more generally, reconsider the relation of literature to communication. The author argues that cryptography serves not only as a template for the language, character, and themes of much of Poe's late fiction but also as a "secret history" of literary modernity itself.

目次

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Genres Chapter 1: The King of Secret Readers Chapter 2: Secret Writing as Alchemy: Recoding Defoe Chapter 3: Detective Fiction and the Analytic Sublime Chapter 4: Dark Fiber: Cryptography, Telegraphy, Science Fiction Part 2: Effects Chapter 5: Resurrexi: Poe in the Crypt of Lizzie Doten Chapter 6: Deciphering the Cold War: Toward a Literary History of Espionage Chapter 7: Ciphering the Net Coda: Strange Loops and Talking Birds Appendix: Public-Key Cryptography Notes Glossary Index

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