Mystère et ombres religieuses : une proposition de relecture des enjeux herméneutiques dans « Murders in the Rue Morgue » d’Edgar Allan Poe

This article proposes to reexamine Poe’s « Murders in the Rue Morgue », in order to examine its theological background : in this story, the « mystery » concerns an essentially ambivalent relationship to knowledge. The motives and narrative strategy refer to an Augustinian approach to the idea of cri...

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Autor principal: Vervel, Marc
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Français
Publicado em: 2021
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Acesso em linha:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Resumo:This article proposes to reexamine Poe’s « Murders in the Rue Morgue », in order to examine its theological background : in this story, the « mystery » concerns an essentially ambivalent relationship to knowledge. The motives and narrative strategy refer to an Augustinian approach to the idea of crime in connection with an interrogation of the reasons of the blindness of the mind ; but these theological traces are only mobilized in this text in the service of the hermeneutical strategy of the story.