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David Ketterer- The SF Element in the Work of Poe: A Chronological Survey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | It is the "happier star" mentioned in "Sonnet--To Science," which functions as a proem to "Al Aaraaf"; here the world of myth, displaced on earth by science, has taken refuge. |
 | | In this fourth doppelganger grotesque (see #33), the result of the narrator's mutilating his fl cat (a projection of those aspects of his personality he wishes to exorcise) is a series of catastrophes culminating in the death of his wife-i.e., his potential for arabesque awareness. |
 | | Claims that Poe was "the first writer of science centered fiction to base his stories firmly on a rational kind of explanation, avoiding the supernatural" (p4l7); counts seven of the tales as SF: ## 13, 58, 59, 62, 74, 81, 83. |
| www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/3/ketter3bib.htm (6434 words) |
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