Abstracts for the Poe Panel at the MLA

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Research Article| November 01 2018 Abstracts for the Poe Panel at the MLA The Edgar Allan Poe Review (2018) 19 (2): 319–322. https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.19.2.0319 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Abstracts for the Poe Panel at the MLA. The Edgar Allan Poe Review 1 November 2018; 19 (2): 319–322. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.19.2.0319 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe Edgar Allan Poe Review Search Advanced Search In Cathy Caruth's famous formulation, trauma is “Unclaimed Experience.” Using an understanding of trauma derived from Freud's studies of shell-shocked World War I soldiers, Caruth discusses trauma as a kind of missed event—an experience so overwhelming that it bypasses conventional integration into narrative memory. Although not remembered, trauma nevertheless asserts itself though symptoms including nightmares and neurotic behavior. Recollection, then, becomes key to resolving the debilitating symptoms associated with trauma.In Poe's “angelic dialogues,” however, he inverts this formulation by associating trauma not with forgetting but with recollection and knowledge. In “Eiros and Charmion,” Eiros recalls for Charmion the destruction of the earth as a consequence of a collision with a comet (over fifty years earlier than H. G. Wells's similar story, “The Star”). In “Monos and Una,” Monos recalls for Una the experience of death and his postmortem sensations. And in “The Power of Words”—like “Eiros and Charmion,” a... You do not currently have access to this content.