Congress focusing on the figure of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, recognized as one of the universal masters of the short story.

Coordinated by Félix Duque

Dossier on Edgar Allan Poe in Minerva magazine

PROGRAM
26.05.08
Opening remarks by Mr. Juan BarjaDirector of the CBA
Felix Duke, The Ligeia case. The woman in Poe
Dorothea von Mücke , The demon of perversity. Science, Art, and Morality.

27.05.08
Julian Jimenez Heffernan, Scientific allegory in Poe's narrative.
Mauro Ponzi, Intoxication and terror: the crowd in Poe, Baudelaire and Benjamin

28.05.08
Enrique Lynch, The fantastic in Poe.
David cunningham, Poe and the culture of metropolises.

29.05.08
jamie siles, Philosophy of composition.
Paul Patrick Quinn, Philosophy of decomposition: Buñuel and Poe.

30.05.08
Roundtable: Paul Patrick Quinn, Felix Duke y José Luis Pardo.
20.00 h. Poe's film adaptations. Moderator: Gabriel Aranzueque.

Time: 7:30 p.m.

ORGANIZE
CBA