Date: Thursday, April 26Time: 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Place: Meeting Room B
Lecture Fee: Free!
Registration: Register online
Dr. Marilyn Fisher’s talk will be a reconsideration of Edgar Allan Poe. It is highly appropriate to talk about Poe today. He is not only The Father of the Detective Novel, but one of the most influential writers in American literary history.
Dr. Fisher hopes to show Poe, then, in this expanded context, as much more than the artist who dealt in the creepy-crawlies and still frightens junior high students to death with his ghastly images.
Dr. Fisher will discuss Poe’s life, the literary genres in which he worked, the literary influences on his writing, some of the elements of his technique, which are still relevant to writers today, and finally, how he influenced American writers who came after him.
Dr. Fisher hopes to show Poe, then, in this expanded context, as much more than the artist who dealt in the creepy-crawlies and still frightens junior high students to death with his ghastly images.
Dr. Fisher will discuss Poe’s life, the literary genres in which he worked, the literary influences on his writing, some of the elements of his technique, which are still relevant to writers today, and finally, how he influenced American writers who came after him.
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