| Title: | Poe’s The Gold-Bug: from the Reading of Madness to the Madness of its Readings |
| Author: | Lorelei Caraman |
| Publication: | Philologica Jassyensia, X (1 supl.), p. 131-138 |
| p-ISSN: | 1841-5377 |
| e-ISSN: | 2247-8353 |
| Publisher: | Institutul de Filologie Română „A. Philippide” |
| Place: | Iaşi |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | Poe’s The Gold-Bug: from the Reading of Madness to the Madness of its Readings seeks to establish a relationship between the scene of reading within Poe’s tale and the scene of the tale’s early psychoanalytic readings. By first following the function of interpretation within the text and subsequently moving to some of the characteristics of its critical interpretations, we aim to show how “The Gold-Bug”, not only anticipates its misreadings, but also how it ultimately deconstructs them. One of the paper’s main objectives, therefore, is to bring into the foreground what Pierre Bayard calls “the paradoxical nature” of the literary text, by illustrating the way in which Poe’s short story invites a reading of madness, while simultaneously exposing the “madness” of its readings. |
| Key words: | Poe, psychoanalytic reading, The Gold Bug, interpretation, madness |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
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