LEADER 05307cam a22007214a 4500001 99125316983606421 005 20230621140238.0 006 m o d 007 cr||||||||nn|n 008 191230t20191997mdu o 00 0 eng d 035 (CKB)4100000010461134 035 (OCoLC)1137746433 035 (MdBmJHUP)muse82410 035 (oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88999 035 (EXLCZ)994100000010461134 040 MdBmJHUP |cMdBmJHUP 041 0 eng 050 4 PS2642.C5 |bR67 1997 100 1 Rosenheim, Shawn, |eauthor 245 14 The Cryptographic Imagination |bSecret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet / |cShawn James Rosenheim. 260 |bJohns Hopkins University Press 300 1 online resource (1 online resource (ix, 264 pages) :) |billustrations. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 computer |bc |2rdamedia 338 online resource |bcr |2rdacarrier 490 0 Parallax 500 The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License 500 Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. 500 Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1997 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-251) and index. 588 0 Description based on print version record. 520 Originally published in 1996. In The Cryptographic Imagination, Shawn Rosenheim uses the writings of Edgar Allan Poe to pose a set of questions pertaining to literary genre, cultural modernity, and technology. Rosenheim argues that Poe's cryptographic writing—his essays on cryptography and the short stories that grew out of them—requires that we rethink the relation of poststructural criticism to Poe's texts and, more generally, reconsider the relation of literature to communication. Cryptography serves not only as a template for the language, character, and themes of much of Poe's late fiction (including his creation, the detective story) but also as a "secret history" of literary modernity itself. "Both postwar fiction and literary criticism," the author writes, "are deeply indebted to the rise of cryptography in World War II." Still more surprising, in Rosenheim's view, Poe is not merely a source for such literary instances of cryptography as the codes in Conan Doyle's "The Dancing-Men" or in Jules Verne, but, through his effect on real cryptographers, Poe's writing influenced the outcome of World War II and the development of the Cold War. However unlikely such ideas sound, The Cryptographic Imagination offers compelling evidence that Poe's cryptographic writing clarifies one important avenue by which the twentieth century called itself into being. "The strength of Rosenheim's work extends to a revisionistic understanding of the entirety of literary history (as a repression of cryptography) and then, in a breathtaking shift of register, interlinks Poe's exercises in cryptography with the hyperreality of the CIA, the Cold War, and the Internet. What enables this extensive range of applications is the stipulated tension Rosenheim discerns in the relationship between the forms of the literary imagination and the condition of its mode of production. Cryptography, in this account, names the technology of literary production—the diacritical relationship between decoding and encoding—that the literary imagination dissimulates as hieroglyphics—the hermeneutic relationship between a sign and its content."—Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College 546 English 650 0 Modernism (Literature) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01024455 650 0 Internet. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00977184 650 0 Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00972484 650 0 Detective and mystery stories, American. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00891483 650 0 Cryptography in literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00884564 650 0 Cryptography. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00884552 650 0 Ciphers in literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00861553 650 0 American literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00807113 650 0 Cold War. 650 0 Ciphers in literature. 650 0 Internet. 650 0 Cryptography in literature. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xCryptography. 650 0 Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) 650 0 Modernism (Literature) |zUnited States. 650 0 American literature |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Detective and mystery stories, American |xHistory and criticism. 651 0 United States. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155 600 11 Poe, Edgar Allan, |d1809-1849. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00032674 600 11 Poe, Edgar Allan, |d1809-1849 |xInfluence. 600 11 Poe, Edgar Allan, |d1809-1849 |xCryptography. 611 27 Cold War (1945-1989) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01754978 611 27 World War (1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180924 655 4 Criticism, interpretation, etc. |0(OCoLC)fst01411635 655 4 Electronic books. 648 7 1939-1945 |2fast 653 Literary theory 776 |z1-4214-3716-3 776 |z1-4214-3717-1 830 0 Parallax (Baltimore, Md.) 906 BOOK