Originally published in 1996.
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 communicati.
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.
Originally published in 1996