Edgar Allen Poe
Submitted by chanc31 on November 27, 2011
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Edgar Allen Poe
An important group of literary critics has derived from Michel Foucault's late work, especially Discipline and Punish, the idea that literary narrative polices thought and behavior. Though these critics claim that detective stories are the best examples of this policing, Poe's detective story, "The Purloined Letter," is a clear counterexample.
Foucault argued that "disciplinary methods," developed since the seventeenth century, have made writing, and especially narrative description, a means of controlling and dominating:
The child, the patient, the prisoner, were to become, with increasing ease from the eighteenth century . . . the object...
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