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Quid Pro Quo, or Destination Unknown: Johnson, Derrida, and Lacan Reading Poe
Edgar Allan Poe wrote J. R. Lowell a letter dated July 2, 1844, in which he stated that “‘The Purloined Letter,’ forthcoming in ‘The Gift’ is perhaps the best of my tales of ratiocination” (qtd. in Mabbot 3). ...