Object's details: “Smilers, Defilers, Reekers and Leakers” – Dogs as Tools of Subversion and Transgression in Short Stories by Edgar A. Poe, Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce

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Title:
“Smilers, Defilers, Reekers and Leakers” – Dogs as Tools of Subversion and Transgression in Short Stories by Edgar A. Poe, Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce
Creator:
Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska, Anna
Contributor:
Kazik, Joanna;
Mirowska, Paulina;
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn;
Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, Poland (PhD in American literature). Since 1995 she has worked at the English Department at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland. She has published and presented papers on, among other things, the prose of Ambrose Bierce and H. P. Lovecraft, film adaptations, visual culture, and various pop culture phenomena. Her current research focuses on William Gibson’s novels and online modes of communication
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In this article I will analyze three satirical stories written by Edgar A. Poe, Ambrose Bierce and Mark Twain. The common denominator of them is the presence of dogs and their eccentric subject matter and controversial narrative strategies have for many decades been treated as a major offense against the standards of literary taste. A closer analysis of such thoughtprovoking and critically underrated tales as “Toby Dammit,” “Oil of Dog” or “A Dog’s Tale” makes it evident that their powerful effect is possible thanks to transgression and subversion of generic expectations and aesthetic norms as well as social, political and religious issues that dominated the public discourse in the nineteenth-century United States. Furthermore, what might be perceived as a temporary rebellion or a mere irregularity in the literary oeuvre of three unquestionably canonical nineteenth-century writers is, in fact, a conscious, if risky, attempt on the part of Poe, Twain and Bierce to offer meaningful diagnoses of a society whose values and behaviours appear to be even more disgusting and irrational than the bizarre and often highly disturbing plotlines and extreme experiences in the fictitious worlds they created.;
Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00.
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free access
Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 ;
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Międzynarodowe
Date:
2019.06.10;
2013
Type:
Book chapter
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf;
image/jpeg
Publisher:
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Relation:
Kazik J., Mirowska P. (red.), Studies in English Drama and Poetry vol. 3. Reading subversion and transgression, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2013;;
Studies in English Drama and Poetry;;
3
Subject:
dogs as tools of subversion and transgression;
short stories;
Edgar A. Poe;
Mark Twain;
Ambrose Bierce
Identifier:
Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska A., “Smilers, Defilers, Reekers and Leakers” – Dogs as Tools of Subversion and Transgression in Short Stories by Edgar A. Poe, Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce, [w:] Studies in English Drama and Poetry vol. 3. Reading subversion and transgression, Kazik J., Mirowska P. (red.), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2013, s. 229-246, doi: 10.18778/7525-994-0.19;
978-83-7525-994-0;
http://hdl.handle.net/11089/28815 ;
10.18778/7525-994-0.19
Data provider:
Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

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