{"product_id":"the-cryptographic-imagination-secret-writing-from-edgar-poe-to-the-internet-by-shawn-james-rosenheim","title":"The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet by Shawn James Rosenheim","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780801853326\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohns Hopkins University Press, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e24 March 2020\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 275 Pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOriginally published in 1996. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Cryptographic Imagination\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47192988909730,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/41WGWXQAQ2L._SY342.jpg?v=1776849727","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/the-cryptographic-imagination-secret-writing-from-edgar-poe-to-the-internet-by-shawn-james-rosenheim","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}