The purloined letter

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영문학수업때 쓴 리포트입니다. This paper is written in English.

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As the title of the book says, The Purloined Letter is a tale of detection. And it is surprising that this story is one of the first detective stories because it is shown as the pioneer of a new counterplot of detective tales to descendants because Poe’s short story, “The Purloined Letter”, can be analyzed by the view of postmodernism for trying to break an existing model and constructing a new frame of mystery stories. I thought this story experiences disintegration processes by violating usage because it does not follow the so-called classical style of detective tale: it does not strike readers with terror and it does not have any murder or an unknown criminal. It does not seem to a typical detective novel because everything is given to readers like who is the criminal and how the letter was purloined. Besides, this is a revenge play. Actually, in the above passage, ‘a plan’ means a vengeance to Thyestes. Therefore, based on a revenge play, this short story introduces a new way for detective novels using Poe’s poetic words.

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