The Cryptographic Imagination : Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)

The Cryptographic Imagination : Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 282 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780801853319
  • DDC分類 813.3

基本説明

Uses the writings of Edgar Allan Poe to pose a set of questions pertaining to literary genre, cultural modernity, and technology.

Full Description

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.

Contents

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