On 10/27/05, Michael Robison wrote:
>
> I read Stansberry's Noir Manifesto. I agreed
with
> about half of it. Some of his comments were
just
> totally beyond me. I didn't see the supernatural as
a
> significant element in Poe's "Murder in the
Rue
> Morgue" or "The Death of Marie Roget".
I don't think that Stansberry sees "the supernatural as a
significant element" in Poe's detective fiction. The way I
interpret it is that Poe sees the rational method of
crime-solving as just another manifestation of the
supernatural, according to Stansberry "process and
logic-indeed the act of analysis itself-are ultimately viewed
as further manifestations of the supernatural."
Which I find to be very interesting inasmuch as logic would
appear, at first glance, to be something of the opposite of
the supernatural. Stansberry seems to think that logic is
instead removed a matter of degrees from the
supernatural.
Tribe
-- http://tribe.textdriven.com/blog Tribe's Blog
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