Murder: Aesthetics and Poe
Murder as a Fine Art: Basic Connections between Poe's Aesthetics, Psychology, and Moral Vision Author(s): Joseph J. Moldenhauer Source: PMLA, Vol. 83, No. 2 (May, 1968), pp. 284-297 Published by: Modern Language Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1261183 . Accessed: 02/06/2011 19:35
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MURDER AS A FINE ART: BASIC CONNECTIONS BETWEEN POE'S AESTHETICS, PSYCHOLOGY, AND MORAL VISION
BY JOSEPHJ. MOLDENHAUER
ONLY in Eureka, his late cosmological treatise, but throughout his literary career, Edgar Allan Poe pursued a unitary theory of metaphysics, nature, art, and the human mind. He conducted his search with astounding vitality and persistence, and surely, by the time he had written Eureka, he believed he had arrived at the
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MURDER AS A FINE ART: BASIC CONNECTIONS BETWEEN POE'S AESTHETICS, PSYCHOLOGY, AND MORAL VISION
BY JOSEPHJ. MOLDENHAUER
ONLY in Eureka, his late cosmological treatise, but throughout his literary career, Edgar Allan Poe pursued a unitary theory of metaphysics, nature, art, and the human mind. He conducted his search with astounding vitality and persistence, and surely, by the time he had written Eureka, he believed he had arrived at the